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Brisbane asked if hard news reporters should push sources like politicians and companies if they provide the media with information that seems false. In an op-ed piece, Brisbane says, a reporter can call out a lie. But in a hard news piece, he questioned whether a reporter should just report the facts even if evidence points to those "facts" being false.
Brisbane -- who is the fourth public editor for The Times and has an extensive journalism career that began in 1976 -- wrote a follow-up post explaining what he was attempting to articulate in the original piece, but it did nothing to soothe the annoyance of people on Twitter and commenters who were outraged at his "truth vigilante" question.
The question did however provide some Twitter comedy. Check out some funny/clever/poignant tweets about The Times's debacle below.