[bandrami]

That absolutely should be career-ending for a journalist, apology or no

[etchalon]

Not "career-ending" but definitely back a few paces.

This wasn't outright fabrication, it was a sloppy editorial workflow that resulted in hallucinations being published as fast (which is absolutely going to be get more and more common unless newsrooms develop specific guards against it).

[bandrami]

How is it not "outright fabrication"? Quotes were attributed to a subject that he didn't say. That's fabrication.

[etchalon]

Fabrication implies agency in a way that doesn't feel accurate.

[bandrami]

If you signed your name to the story you settled the agency question right there