Comments on: What Is Fact, My Friends? http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:38:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: JunkYardBlog http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-72590 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:48:50 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-72590 <strong>More Devil's Advocate: Ace responds......</strong> ...not to me so much as to J-Pod, which makes me all sad and mopey because I at least linked to Ace and JPod was a no-linkydink. ...the main issue is whether the stories are true, but given the fact...... More Devil’s Advocate: Ace responds……

…not to me so much as to J-Pod, which makes me all sad and mopey because I at least linked to Ace and JPod was a no-linkydink. …the main issue is whether the stories are true, but given the fact……

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-42214 Tue, 29 May 2007 16:39:29 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-42214 Yeah, I thought about Frey as I was writing this. I still maintain he deserved all the drilling he got, including his agent ditching him, and that Oprah narrowly avoided a loss of some of *her* reputation by initially backing him before flipping her opinion. Personal memoirs are that much more difficult to fact-check than policy/opinion screeds, but big whoppers like how much time he spent in jail, at least, should have been spot-checked. The bigger the lies, though, the more likely somebody knows it's a lie and will come along and blow the whistle, like they did on Frey. When you walk a line skirting public debate, like Carter, or bring out a lie that so many thousands of people are ready and willing to swallow, like Rather, it's harder. Yeah, I thought about Frey as I was writing this. I still maintain he deserved all the drilling he got, including his agent ditching him, and that Oprah narrowly avoided a loss of some of *her* reputation by initially backing him before flipping her opinion. Personal memoirs are that much more difficult to fact-check than policy/opinion screeds, but big whoppers like how much time he spent in jail, at least, should have been spot-checked. The bigger the lies, though, the more likely somebody knows it’s a lie and will come along and blow the whistle, like they did on Frey. When you walk a line skirting public debate, like Carter, or bring out a lie that so many thousands of people are ready and willing to swallow, like Rather, it’s harder.

]]> by: thelmajoy http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-42188 Tue, 29 May 2007 14:47:27 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-42188 Do I dare to bring up such frivolity as "A Million Little Pieces"? I find it comical that the guy goes on Oprah to get drilled, while main-stream media distorts the truth on a daily basis, not to mention out-right lying. Dan Rather anyone? Do I dare to bring up such frivolity as “A Million Little Pieces”? I find it comical that the guy goes on Oprah to get drilled, while main-stream media distorts the truth on a daily basis, not to mention out-right lying. Dan Rather anyone?

]]> by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39733 Fri, 25 May 2007 18:28:31 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39733 Thanks for the compliment, Fallohide, but I meant my fact checking of other people's writing--I am a freelance copy editor and so can relate a little to Vanderleun's article. 'Fraid I don't have time for the LOTR online game--glad it's fun. Thanks for the compliment, Fallohide, but I meant my fact checking of other people’s writing–I am a freelance copy editor and so can relate a little to Vanderleun’s article.

‘Fraid I don’t have time for the LOTR online game–glad it’s fun.

]]> by: fallohide http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39719 Fri, 25 May 2007 17:42:58 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39719 The main difference between fact checking of your writing versus their writing? You are writing to give us some real information, not hand us an agitprop piece designed to re-inflate the badly deflated public image of a political has-been. PS: Have you tried out the new on-line LOTR game? Not quite canonical, but it is pretty, a lot of fun, and it has a lot of players! The main difference between fact checking of your writing versus their writing? You are writing to give us some real information, not hand us an agitprop piece designed to re-inflate the badly deflated public image of a political has-been.

PS: Have you tried out the new on-line LOTR game? Not quite canonical, but it is pretty, a lot of fun, and it has a lot of players!

]]> by: JunkYardBlog http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39406 Fri, 25 May 2007 06:19:25 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/05/24/what-is-fact-my-friends/#comment-39406 <strong>More Thoughts on Publishing, and Fact Checking (UPDATE)...</strong> Since my post below about book-publisher snobbery attracted some comments, let me send you over to some related thoughts at American Digest. There, Gerard Vanderleun says that in modern book publishing--especially when it comes to books by big names li... More Thoughts on Publishing, and Fact Checking (UPDATE)…

Since my post below about book-publisher snobbery attracted some comments, let me send you over to some related thoughts at American Digest. There, Gerard Vanderleun says that in modern book publishing–especially when it comes to books by big names li…

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