David Thomson
2007-12-03 09:22:10
“Simple economics makes it dicey.”
Simple economics makes it prohibitively expensive. A media outlet might spend far more for the fact checking than what it does for the author’s actual piece. This was not my main concern regarding the Scott Thomas Beauchamp mess. There is only so much TNR could realistically do before the fact. Franklin Foer goofed up by not taking direct action when it was clearly obvious that Soldier Beauchamp was a liar. This should have been done no later than the end of the first week.
