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TNR, the NYT and the Myth of the Fact-Checker

December 3, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Roger L Simon
Susan Katz Keating
2007-12-03 06:26:46

When I wrote for Readers Digest, virtually every comma was fact checked. If I wrote that something happened on a rainy day, I needed to have meteorological documentation that it did in fact rain on that day. When writing for People magazine, I expect the same rigorous documentation process. At TNR, it sounds as if fact checking is more like, “does it feel right?” My latest on the Fog of Foer:
http://susankatzkeating.blogspot.com/2007/12/fog-of-foer.html