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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (41833)5/2/2004 2:56:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 793623
 
In the Style section last summer we profiled a Los Angeles writer named Micah Ian Wright...He never served in the military -- and confessed that last week to his publisher, Seven Stories Press, after we insisted on evidence of his service

Well, better late than never, but would it have been too much to ask for the WaPo to have checked out his resume before they published a profile of him in the paper?

The practice of journalism used to include fact-checking, I believe.
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