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![Text of an email (part 2)
Poor research on Jason Arday
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'... I have not seen a single newspaper that claimed these marathons were a lie publish anything correcting those claims. Even yesterday, the BBC wrote: “Questions were also asked about Arday’s claims that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days, and 300 miles in three days for charity” in their piece about [Nathan] Cofnas resigning.'
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'We’ve covered three important media-literacy points in this piece:
'A respectable newspaper using an anonymous Reddit comment as the basis for a headline and story which they paid to push across social media, as part of an excessive campaign of articles focussed on one man, long after he resigned.
'A media narrative stripping a very real life-time achievement from a man, saying there was no evidence to back up his claim of running 30 marathons in 35 days, when that evidence was publicly available all along.
'A claim he never made being used as proof that he was a serial liar.'
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'As I said at the start, I am only covering things I have evidence for. And I am not suggesting that he didn’t exaggerate, embellish or even lie about other things. He may well have done, but that did not warrant the coverage he received in the weeks leading up to his death.'
The fight for truth is on, as someone once said.
Ed Wilson](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oqhejqhljmlu3pganizsztib/bafkreiep323einvfrjykjrc2xaim5gyier64u6z4nzlzuiunw3edzu2oje)
