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A daily newspaper published a fake story at the request of law enforcement officials, helping prosecute a man but also raising ethical red flags among journalists.
Editors at suburban Seattle's Eastside Journal, now the King County Journal, said they cooperated with prosecutors and sheriff's detectives who asked them to run a false article to catch convicted murderer Steven Sherer in a plot to burn down the home where his teenage son lives with the mother of his slain wife, the Seattle Times reported.
"Journalistically, we'll probably take some heat for it, but we have a responsibility to the community, and th