holdfast
2007-08-22 08:43:09
Mel: I fixed that for you:
Last line of the article, a Foer quote:”I hope that the New Republic will have a devil-may-care attitude when it comes to fact-checking and reportorial standards.”
ChrisO – the only thing that is laughable is TNR’s efforts to defend this. Instead of just manninig-up, saying that they were trying to do something different with their Iraq Diarist, and that it didn’t work out, they keep trying to play offense and looking even more silly. Even a cursory review of STB’s blog and his myspace page would have show what whackjob the guy is – I guess that was more diligence than TNR was prepared to do,
