Didn’t magazines used to employ fact checkers?

It’s not daily media, like the New York Times or the WaPo, but the New Yorker is still media. At Irish Pennants, Jack Kelly details how, in a single paragraph, Nicholas Lemann, the Dean of Columbia Universities Graduate School of Journalism, makes five major factual errors. Kelly’s gracious enough not to blame Lemann, noting that he’s one of a crowd who accepts these factual errors as true, but as my mother always said, “If all your friends jump over a cliff, that doesn’t mean you have to also.”

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