Guilty as charged

I don't suppose anything should surprise me about the Daily Heil any more, but I'll confess that this did. Preparing an alternative report in order to be able to meet quick deadlines is one thing - but including quotes either given before the event or simply made up and, even more critically, fabricating a fictional account of the courtroom reaction to the supposed guilty verdict is quite another. It's only thanks to a staffer's blunder following something getting lost in translation that the story's come to light. Typically, the paper's been unapologetic.