pipe v. to embellish, fabricate, or invent (information for a newspaper article). (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
pipe v.— «He writes in the style of the metro column, a genre that has included some of the best newspaper writing ever, but also its share of “piping,” making stuff up in the tradition of Damon Runyon, who wrote fiction. (One columnist calls such...
pipe v.— «It anticipated the whole Jayson Blair imbroglio by a good 15 years with a thriller about a reporter who gets burned making up—or “piping,” in David Freeman’s parlance—a New York magazine article about a pimp. » —“In the end, Hollywood...
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v.— «Jim Roberts’s research also established the likelihood of inaccuracies, plagiarism, piped quotes, and faked datelines in many other Blair stories. » —“My Times” by Howard Raines The Atlantic May, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)