Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a trip to Pearl city hall to write one last check, Malone heads back to the site. The Mississippi Power & Light man is already there, and a Pearl police officer stops by to inform Malone that the move will be delayed until after a funeral passes through town. Malone looks annoyed. He kicks some sod, readjusts his blue Malone House Moving cap and struts over to the rig to recheck the house's support system...
...coverage of a controversy involving Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater. MediaWatch is of course entitled to its ideology. But in parroting the MediaWatch article as fact -- including the erroneous assertion that no TIME reporter had sought Atwater's side of the story -- the Washington Times neglected to check with the target of the criticism. The paper dutifully ran a correction...
...weekends with the President at Camp David." Neither assertion was true (not one cornflake with Reagan, not one hoofbeat at Camp David). These and similar inaccuracies supported the punch line that excess access might have warped my perspective. The reviewer later explained that he'd lacked the time to check the information...
...fact, the Monthly often scolds the rest of journalism about unsound practices, with access being a particular bugaboo. It dutifully acknowledged the errors two months later -- after others had repeated them. Editor Charles Peters now says his writers usually do check with people they criticize. "The time you don't do it," he adds, "is when everyone knows what the other guy would say. Even then, it should be done...
More broadly, if too many news organizations neglect to check their facts, how long before the Insider's Lament becomes everyone's? In a business whose cardinal asset is credibility, that notion should be unsettling...