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October 28, 2005
TT: Rerun
October 2003:As anyone knows who's been in journalism for more than the past 20 minutes or so, fact checking is an increasingly lost art. Time was when many magazines--if not most--rigorously checked every factual assertion made in every story they published. When I was writing profiles for Mirabella nine years ago, the checkers even required me to give them my interview tapes. But by the time I got to Time, the rigor had loosened considerably. My Time stories about the arts were "self-checked," a wonderfully Orwellian euphemism meaning that they weren't checked at all--it was assumed that I knew what I was talking about....
(If it's new to you, read the whole thing here.)
Posted October 28, 2005 12:03 PM
