Re: Oh, Nevermind

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Ahem.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 11:57 AM
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Howell was entirely too kind to John Solomon in the same column.


Posted by: snarkout | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 11:59 AM
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1: That's not what the actual policy is, though.

I like the title of the article. "Accurate, but not the Whole Story" Kinda makes you, I dunno, not accurate?


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:01 PM
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Only 99 copies of Faulkner??


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:06 PM
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'smasher, is grammarpolice dead?


Posted by: md 20/400 | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:16 PM
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3: WMYBSALB?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:18 PM
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Seems so. The host is working on the problem.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:23 PM
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6: Because it's either that or proofread a stupid fucking chapter of a stupid fucking dissertation.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:31 PM
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I'll proof your chapter at a reasonable rate.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:32 PM
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8: Make someone else do it. Send a copy to your man!


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:33 PM
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I mean, for a reasonable rate of payment. I will also do it with reasonable quickness.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:34 PM
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Or make Ben do it. Tell him you'll send him a picture of your tits, or something.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:35 PM
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("Wit' dispatch, boss." "And wit' dese brass knuckles, boss.")


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:35 PM
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Where "proof" means "make the argument not fallacious."


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:37 PM
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Ok, then Ben's not the right person.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:38 PM
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I might be available for some proofreading, too. $1 less than what w-lfs-n's charging.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:38 PM
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Bastard.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 12:40 PM
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You could really screw me by claiming to be charging $1.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 1:16 PM
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Or less.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 1:19 PM
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I was considering claiming to be charging nothing, but then what if Cala believed me?


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 2:40 PM
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Has anyone here ever read a newspaper article about something they had firsthand knowledge of, and not noticed substantial inaccuracies in the article?


Posted by: Hamilton Lovecraft | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 3:27 PM
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Yes, but only when I also wrote the article.


Posted by: Tom Scudder | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 3:46 PM
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Thanks, MSM.

I wouldn't really call Armsmasher a member of the Mainstream Media.

Or were you trying to subtly imply that he's gay?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 5:36 PM
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Has anyone here ever read a newspaper article about something they had firsthand knowledge of, and not noticed substantial inaccuracies in the article?

Pretty much everything in The Economist about U.S. politics and culture. Oh and their China coverage is usually full of crap too.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 5:39 PM
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Oh wait, I misread and skipped the "not" in H.L.'s sentence. So I guess my answer is ,"No, but some perpetrators are way worse than others," followed by the examples given in 24.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 01-28-07 5:43 PM
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