Divulgado relatório da investigação ao escândalo do USA Today O jornal USA TOday acaba de tornar público o relatório de quase 30 páginas, resultado da investigação levada a cabo nas últimas semanas sobre as "façanhas" do jornalista-vedeta Jack Kelly. O relatório revela "an extraordinary public indictment of the newspaper's slowness to investigate, document and stop Kelley's transgressions". Eis as três primeiras das conclusões que figuram numa longa lista: "1) Jack Kelley's dishonest reporting dates back at least as far as 1991. There were more than enough serious cumulative concerns, challenges and doubts expressed about Kelley's work, to have triggered an intensive internal investigation of him years before the anonymous letter arrived. 2) The complaints about Kelley came from members of the newspaper's staff and from external sources, a number of them officials representing government and non-governmental institutions. 3) A virus of "fear"—defined somewhat differently by different staff critics—clearly infected some staffers in the News section and inhibited them from pushing complaints about Kelley. Some staff members said they were scolded or insulted when they expressed concerns about Kelley to editors. We did not find that "a culture of fear" blankets the entire newspaper or most of its departments. It is alive and sick in the News section."