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Despite his easy familiarity with national security and foreign affairs, the Vice President committed more factual gaffes than Ferraro. Early on in the debate he seemed so wildly overcharged in his delivery that Ferraro aides watching him on television derisively demanded that he be given a saliva test...
Federal District Judge Charles Haight's action last week did not affect that principle. But he ruled that nine of Herbert's eleven assertions of libel lacked factual basis. According to CBS, the remaining issues are minor. Said Herbert's attorney, Jonathan Lubell: "We thought many more issues should have gone to the jury. But given the state of libel law, whenever a public figure gets to face a jury, it is a victory...
...Amherst strikes its public affairs director, Douglas Wilson, as "fair enough," and her in-person approach gets praise from W.W. Washburn, head of admissions at the University of Washington. But other administrators award her a D-. A spokesman for Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., charges that factual errors in Birnbach's treatment of his school are "just appalling." William Cotter, president of Colby College in Maine, fumes, "I can't get over how superficial and sloppy the Colby entry...
When journalists hear journalists claim a "larger truth," they really ought to go for their pistols. The New Yorker's Alastair Reid said the holy words last week: "A reporter might take liberties with the factual circumstances to make the larger truth clear." O large, large truth. Apparently Mr. Reid believes that imposing a truth is the same as arriving at one. Illogically, he also seems to think that truths may be disclosed through lies. But his error is more fundamental still in assuming that large truth is the province of journalism in the first place. The business...
...rose quickly after leaving the Trentonian in 1981 to become a $379-a-week copyreader at the Dow Jones News Service, a Journal affiliate. The following year he was promoted to the newspaper as a "Heard on the Street" writer. Although he received a written warning after making four factual errors, he improved enough to win a raise. Said Pearlstine: "In spite of the reprimand letter, I thought Foster was doing a fine job in most respects...