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Thursday, 02 August 2007
2007.08.02 Long War // Dhimm Perfidy Roundup

The Scott Thomas Beauchamp saga:
The fallibility of TNR’s fact-checkers
Michelle Malkin:

On their way out the door for their August holiday, TNR’s editors have delivered another “statement” on the Scott Thomas Beauchamp controversy that is apparently meant to end the questions and scrutiny surrounding the Army private’s Baghdad diaries.

After several huffy paragraphs demonstrating how all of Beauchamp’s essays were “fact-checked before publication,” TNR’s fact-checking editors admit that a fundamental error slipped past their layers and layers of safeguards: ...

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TNR posts Beauchamp “confirmation”
that, um, doesn’t really confirm anything
Bryan Preston

The New Republic has posted “A Statement on Scott Thomas Beauchamp” that conforms to what I predicted they would do to put this sordid mess behind them. Here’s what I predicted on July 21.

Foer’s two public statements on the matter do absolutely nothing to suggest that he’s seriously looking into the matter and that he is treating the criticism that’s been leveled at “Thomas” fairly. He’s playing defense by going on offense, not by basic fact-finding. ...

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Posted by Bill Faith on August 2, 2007 at 07:26 PM | Permalink

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