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He had a long and distinguished career in the news and no one really gets to the bottom of why he did it. Its a long report but the important bits are:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1057514,00.html
See also:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1057203,00.html
other links on this going back to when the story broke in July are at the bottom of the second link.
Emps
A Sky News correspondent who lost his job after faking a report during the war in Iraq has been found hanged, it emerged yesterday.
James Forlong, an award-winning reporter who covered many of the world's troublespots for the channel, was devastated at being exposed in a television documentary on a rival channel three months ago.
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Forlong's report purported to show a missile being fired by a Royal Navy submarine at sea during the Iraq war. The pooled report was shown on ITV and channels around the world as well as Sky before a BBC documentary team revealed that Forlong had been filing from a vessel in dock which had not fired a missile while he was on board. Images of the missile flying through the air were taken from archive footage. The BBC story was publicised in the Guardian.
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Forlong's career began on local newspapers in Sussex. He worked as a BBC radio reporter before moving into television in 1988 at ITN. He joined Sky in 1993 as senior foreign correspondent.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1057514,00.html
See also:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1057203,00.html
other links on this going back to when the story broke in July are at the bottom of the second link.
Emps