cwo_ghwebb
No Use for Donk Twits
The NYSlimes doesn't do its homework - again.
(And they wonder why their readership declined 20% the last five years?)
The book, “Love and Consequences,” was a fake, and had Begg been asked to do five minutes of checking in readily available public records, or had reporters and editors done it themselves before the newspaper bit, The Times could have been spared the embarrassment of falling for yet another too-good-to-be-true memoir from a publishing industry unwilling to accept responsibility for separating fact from fiction.
All retractions and apologies will be buried on page F66 under the Starbucks advertisement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16
(And they wonder why their readership declined 20% the last five years?)
The book, “Love and Consequences,” was a fake, and had Begg been asked to do five minutes of checking in readily available public records, or had reporters and editors done it themselves before the newspaper bit, The Times could have been spared the embarrassment of falling for yet another too-good-to-be-true memoir from a publishing industry unwilling to accept responsibility for separating fact from fiction.
All retractions and apologies will be buried on page F66 under the Starbucks advertisement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16
