• By Ryan Tate
    Mar 4, 2008 10:55 PM 1,515
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    Fake Gangster Caught On Video

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    At Least Lying Author Was Convincing
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    Fact-Checked Memoirs Would Cost $100 Each

    Seltzer Npr Gawker.Flv"Whenever a case like this comes to light, someone asks: Why don't publishers fact-check their books? The basic answer is that it's not practical. Publishers release hundreds of books each year, most of them several hundred pages long. A publisher simply can't afford to fact-check all of those books to the standards of, say, the New Yorker, where a fact checker essentially re-reports each story." [NY Sun]


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