Thejournalist immediately set out to get the facts after receiving instructions from his editor, but he did not send them at once. The editor was getting impatient, so he sent three faxes and threatened that the journalist would be fired if he did not reply soon. The last fax was not answered as well. The artical was printed in its original form. The journalist sent a fax a week later. He was imprisoned because he was caught counting the steps.