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"I want the truth!!!"

"You can't handle the truth!!!"

1 posted on 01/30/2006 3:37:16 AM PST by abb
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The truth is until the whole thing blew up in her face, Oprah didn't care in the least that she was foisting lies.


2 posted on 01/30/2006 3:42:26 AM PST by stevem
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Publishers Say Fact-Checking Is Too Costly (Dino Media Extinction Alert)

And that attitude has done the MSM a whole lotta good, hasn't it?

There are none so blind...

3 posted on 01/30/2006 3:45:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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Hey Orca, how about you do a little fact checking before you give a book a million dollars worth of free publicity.


6 posted on 01/30/2006 3:51:53 AM PST by DainBramage
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" "An author brings a manuscript saying it represents the truth, and that relationship is one of trust," says Ms. Tale"

You've got to be kidding me.

Is their reputation worth so little?

Will they publish anything based on trust with NO verification? Or is it because they liked what they read and published it because of that? Truth is costly, eh? Well having NO credibility is deve$tating. Liars tend to leave a bad taste in your mouth.


7 posted on 01/30/2006 4:16:27 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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Indeed, many members of the publishing industry have rallied around Ms. Talese and Random House, saying that they would have published "A Million Little Pieces" as well and could have been duped just as easily.

Um, no. When it first made the rounds of publishing houses as a work of fiction, no one would touch it.

Unlike journalists, publishers have never seen it as their purview to verify that the information in nonfiction books is true.

So, they care nothing for the reputation of their name?

9 posted on 01/30/2006 4:39:28 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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Oh, please ... with the price they charge for books today they are pleading poverty? Nonsense!


10 posted on 01/30/2006 4:41:15 AM PST by NonValueAdded (What ever happened to "Politics stops at the water's edge?")
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yaeh..like we WANT to pay for rumors.......


11 posted on 01/30/2006 4:49:04 AM PST by mo
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113858811205659673.html?mod=todays_free_feature


12 posted on 01/30/2006 4:49:25 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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American self-esteem training at work. Try telling someone that their judgement is poor.


14 posted on 01/30/2006 5:02:30 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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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.

30 posted on 03/19/2006 10:24:25 AM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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