Bleepless
2007-12-05 21:11:01
Michael Kinsley once wrote a piece about encountering one of the legendary New Yorker fact-checkers. After regaling everyone at the party with the expected stories, the guy asked Kinsley what fact-checking they had at the New Republic. Kinsley said, “You’re looking at it.” The bewildered checker said that, if something was in the New Republic, he always took that as confirmation.
A cautionary tale, then and now.
