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Publishers Say Fact-Checking Is Too Costly (Dino Media Extinction Alert)
Wall Street Journal ^
| Jan 30, 2006
| JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
Posted on 01/30/2006 3:37:14 AM PST by abb
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To: dennisw
You inspired me to look it up. Here's a little blurb about it from Google:
The greatest and most recent theft of Aboriginal identity was by Leon Carmen, alias Wanda Koolmatrie, author of the book My Own Sweet Time. In March 1997, Leon Carmen, a 47-year-old white male, admitted he had invented the persona of Wanda Koolmatrie, allegedly a descendant of the Pitjantjatara people in South Australia and a member of the stolen generation.
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01/30/2006 6:22:59 AM PST
by
starbase
(Understanding Written Propaganda (click "starbase" to learn 22 manipulating tricks!!))
To: starbase
And don't forget our most recent fake Indian who made millions from his phony baloney books
Former NC author's work on Indian life called fake Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Jan 27, 2006 RALEIGH, NC - A former Chapel Hill author isn't the Navajo Indian he claimed in nationally acclaimed memoirs about his troubled childhood growing up in the ... |
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01/30/2006 6:28:27 AM PST
by
dennisw
("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
To: nmh
Dunno. They could always attach
"This book contains the beliefs and opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the those of the publisher. We're just in for the money. Also, the "facts" were provided by the author and were not subject to peer review. You're on your own."
Put it just inside the front cover.
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01/30/2006 6:33:41 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: mo
Possibly. I'm not confident about "reforming" the university, either from within or without. I liken it more to the MSM, which had to be replaced by something totally different.
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01/30/2006 6:57:05 AM PST
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LS
To: LS
its intersting to hear your take on university...I've often held that from a capital investment perspective, there is little reason today for such an institution, given the cost.
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01/30/2006 7:42:51 AM PST
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mo
To: mo
Perhaps, but that also insulates it, because it is cost-prohibitive to move into the oligopoly. We ain't losing students: our enrollments grow every year, even though we jack up tuition every year even more.
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01/30/2006 7:50:12 AM PST
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LS
To: Little Ray
That's a thought.
Believer beware of these "facts"?
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01/30/2006 10:47:22 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: LS
Term limits would neuter this oligopoly...permanently.
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posted on
01/31/2006 5:05:40 AM PST
by
mo
To: mo
Won't work. You are focusing COMPLETELY on the wrong thing. Changing the profs won't change the oligopoly that the schools have with state legislatures and federal student aid. It's the AID that allows schools to jack up tuitions. (BTW, not complaining, but the faculty only gets 3% of tuition increases, according to Richard Vedder's book, "Going Broke by Degree.") Vedder is a great place to start to understand the dynamic of why colleges will NOT be overturned by anything on the horizon right now. It will take a true educational revolution.
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01/31/2006 5:36:33 AM PST
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LS
To: abb
Unlike journalists, publishers have never seen it as their purview to verify that the information in nonfiction books is true. Editors and publishers say the profit-margins in publishing don't allow for hiring fact-checkers.What a sad, self-serving view!
The reality, that as a result, they are "pushing" fiction as non-fiction seems to totally evade their limited view of integrity: perpetrating a fraud and using the lame excuse of "profit margin" as justification.
The really maddening and permanent result is that many of these "non-fiction" books push lies and propaganda as reality, and after it is repeated often enough, it is presumed "fact" in the Hilary" sense:
...they studied Hillary's speechmaking method to understand her power and success. They concluded: her trick was never actually to make any arguments -- just state conclusions that were all already accepted as self-evident by her audience.
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03/19/2006 10:24:25 AM PST
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Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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