The U.S. magazine The New Yorker has created a legend around its fact-checking department of assiduous vetting of articles for accuracy. Supposedly no falsehood can get through its fine-toothed comb editorial process. The rest of the U.S. establishment media has bought into this legend and helps promote it- in fact does all the promoting.
Leaving aside matters of interpretation, I regularly come across flat-out wrong facts in the magazine. Here's one that just popped up in the mag online. Their writer, Jelani Cobb, wrote that Harry Truman replaces Henry Wallace as vice president of the U.S. in 1941. Of course it was 1944.
I was surprised that they would have gotten this one wrong. The death of Roosevelt, his succession by Truman, who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, are rather big deals in U.S. history.
The error occurred in the piece "Donald Trump, a Frightening Window Into the American Present," a "Daily Comment" piece dated March 15, 2016. In case they correct it before you can check, here's a screen shot.
The New Yorker is one of a stable of bourgeois magazines owned by Conde Nast, one of the media corporations controlled by the oligarchic Newhouse family. They also own many newspapers via Advance Publications.
For even more egregious examples of bad "fact-checking," New Yorker-style, examples that are downright malign and evil, see "Jeffrey Toobin Is A Loathsome Liar."
Leaving aside matters of interpretation, I regularly come across flat-out wrong facts in the magazine. Here's one that just popped up in the mag online. Their writer, Jelani Cobb, wrote that Harry Truman replaces Henry Wallace as vice president of the U.S. in 1941. Of course it was 1944.
I was surprised that they would have gotten this one wrong. The death of Roosevelt, his succession by Truman, who dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, are rather big deals in U.S. history.
The error occurred in the piece "Donald Trump, a Frightening Window Into the American Present," a "Daily Comment" piece dated March 15, 2016. In case they correct it before you can check, here's a screen shot.
The New Yorker is one of a stable of bourgeois magazines owned by Conde Nast, one of the media corporations controlled by the oligarchic Newhouse family. They also own many newspapers via Advance Publications.
For even more egregious examples of bad "fact-checking," New Yorker-style, examples that are downright malign and evil, see "Jeffrey Toobin Is A Loathsome Liar."
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