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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Once again, even if you don't like to read political stuff in TNY, do read David Remnick's editorial in the June 20 issue. The language he chooses to characterize Donald Trump is highly entertaining! :D
Jeff Wrangler:
I was about to give up on the article about microbes and drug-resistant infections (June 20) (a duty article if there ever was one), but then at the top of the third column on page 56, it started to get really interesting. I felt a personal connection to the story when I read that streptomycin, "the first cure for tuberculosis," apparently was discovered in 1943. That was the year my grandfather died of tuberculosis.
serious crayons:
The New Yorker is not looking good in the Gay Talese debacle. I have long been suspicious of Gay Talese's fact checking (I once read an annotation of his most famous piece, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," in which he explained his sources and methods, and they seemed sloppy).
But aren't New Yorker fact checkers supposed to be impeccable? The story's flaws were as easily obtainable as real-estate records.
It's like the NY editors were willing to go on faith that a respected old white guy couldn't possibly have screwed up.
I will say that by disavowing his own book before it's even out, Talese is showing integrity. Better than Jonah Lehrer, who lied to cover up his own credibility screwups for as long as he could.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/01/us/politics/ap-us-gay-talese-book.html
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 01, 2016, 12:35:41 pm ---The New Yorker is not looking good in the Gay Talese debacle. I have long been suspicious of Gay Talese's fact checking (I once read an annotation of his most famous piece, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," in which he explained his sources and methods, and they seemed sloppy).
But aren't New Yorker fact checkers supposed to be impeccable? The story's flaws were as easily obtainable as real-estate records.
It's like the NY editors were willing to go on faith that a respected old white guy couldn't possibly have screwed up.
I will say that by disavowing his own book before it's even out, Talese is showing integrity. Better than Jonah Lehrer, who lied to cover up his own credibility screwups for as long as he could.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/01/us/politics/ap-us-gay-talese-book.html
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You mean the article about the Peeping Tom?
Yes, the fact checkers did have a reputation for being impeccable--once upon a time. But lately it seems the fact checking is as bad as the copy editing.
How the mighty have fallen. ...
Front-Ranger:
Several articles in the June 27 issue are read-worthy. The article "The Shadow Doctors" by Ben Taub, brought a chill to my soul. A government bent on destroying its own people now turns to bombing hospitals and places where children are sheltered. How much more will we endure? Right after that is the article "Making a Killing" by Evan Osnos about the growth of the gun culture in the US. It explained a lot of things to me. . .such as why gun owners so stubbornly cling to their guns and why they seem to need so many. People have been manipulated by the gun manufacturers more than they think.
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