The Atlantic: Inventing Reality Using Real Journalism
November 11, 2020
I read “The Atlantic Apologizes for Ruth Shalit Barrett Story After Fabrication, Multiple Inaccuracies Revealed.” The write up may be a hoax about a hoax. Who knows? But this “real journalism” thing is becoming increasingly amusing. The Atlantic? This was a go to source for those in my high school English class at term paper time. Who knew that the information in a publication founded in 1857 could have lost its connection with facts and reality?
The write up report:
The Atlantic said it regrets commissioning and publishing a feature story written by Ruth Shalit Barrett — who was fired from The New Republic in the 1990s over incidents of plagiarism — which has been revealed to include a fabrication and multiple inaccuracies. In a lengthy editor’s note added to Barrett’s edited story, “The Mad, Mad World of Niche Sports Among Ivy League-Obsessed Parents,” late Friday, The Atlantic said, “new information emerged” about the article that was published in the outlet’s November 2020 print edition and on its website Oct. 17 “that has raised serious concerns about its accuracy, and about the credibility of the author, Ruth Shalit Barrett.”
What about that fact checking from the publication which published the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes?
If the story is accurate, the Atlantic will cruise happily along the river of facts on which the good ship Atlantic floats.
Stephen E Arnold, November 11, 2020
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