Pill City: non-fiction book about Baltimore comes under fire

Editor’s note to our readers

 

Not surprised.

The review found 77 stories with 109 individuals from Deutsch’s reporting whom Newsday could not locate. The main points of the stories were not affected. While two stories about the Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen were based on sources Newsday could not locate, other media reported the main points of those stories but with attribution from different sources. Newsday is attaching an editor’s note to each story online that contains individuals we cannot locate.

And, while they rightly explain that tracking down people, sometimes years after the fact, isn't going to be easy, the lack of cooperation doesn't look good.