When investigators discovered that the director of a local charity had repeatedly overstated the number of people his charity had helped, the director accepted responsibility for the deception
However, the investigators claimed that journalists were as much to blame as the director was for inflating the charity' s reputation, since they had naively accepted what the director told them, and simply reported as fact the numbers he gave them
Anyone who lies in order to advance his or her own career is more deserving of blame than someone who lies in order to promote a good cause.