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Publishers Say 'Fact-Checking Too Costly'
Mr. Ghost writes "Members of the book publishing industry say that profit margins are too small to fact check "non-fiction" books. Instead they rely on the "honesty" of the authors submitting the book. This has come to a head with the revelation from the author of "Million Little Pieces" that he lied about the accounts in his memoirs."
Shouldn't the headline read Publishers Admit Wikipedia is More Accurate Than Books?
I didn't even have time to fact-check this reply!
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Filing taxes is a big pain, too, so maybe I'll just give that one a miss this year and see how that turns out...
Have fun,
Nathan 'Nato' Uno
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This also must mean they also don't fact check the fiction!
There may very well have been popular works of fiction that may actually have been non-fiction! I bet if Smoking Gun digs a little, they might get something on Stephen King.
Hopefully people like Oprah will at least fact-check stuff before hanging their credibility out to dry.
Maybe they'll spell check too
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o0t!
Already exists --- we just have to ask google.
For example: "Global warming is true" --- 774 results. "Global warming is false" --- 352 results. Case closed!
(in other controversial results, evolution wins by 76,000 to 21,000 and Santa Claus is clearly real.)
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
I don't believe you.
Cause my father taught me not to believe everything I read on Slashdot.
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o0t!
"when it was more important to be right and honest than to sell tons of books/magazines/newspapers?"
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Think of the poor shareholders
think
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"Money has a strong influence on the weak minded."
--Oprah-Wan Kenobi.
If you had read it, you'd feel duped too.
This is slashdot. Even if you haven't read it, you'll feel duped in 48 hours.
I have always been a bigger fan of the opinions expressed by anonymous cowards.
Some articles not actually news for nerds or stuff that matters.
When asked to substantiate his claim that he "didn't have time to check [his] reply" the Slashdot poster known only as 'ewg' said, "Well, it's kind of like not being able to afford to", and quietly retired from public life, saying only that he (or she, or it) "Needed to spend more time on the talk show circuit".
When and if contacted for comment, Oprah Winfrey -- by her own account an "American TV presenter", whatever that may be, and who cares, and not me -- said she could neither confirm nor deny anything these days, that she preferred it that way, and that she read somewhere that 90% of facts may or may not be something-or-other, but we should love them JUST THE SAME.
And most of the first hits I looked at for "Global warming is false" were pages claiming that people who hold that belief are nutcases.
Currently hooked on AMP
> His client, California resident Karen Futernick, alleges in the suit that she purchased "A Million Little Pieces" on that basis [...] Ayup. $50 Million dollars because she bought a book marked as non-fiction that was actually fictional.
Hey, that's only 50 dollars per piece.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Dear reading people of America,
We ask that you ignore our statement yesterday about "fact-checking [being] too costly" to do. As many have pointed out, it isn't expensive or hard at all to check your facts. In today's world there are many electronic solutions to these problems.
Once again, we apologize for misleading you, fact-checking is fairly cheap.
Yours Always,
Publishers Of America
(Not Affiliated With American Publishers)
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