Word: factualism
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Mayor Hatcher of Gary has the right to repeat his litany of complaints about his home-town newspaper. He and TIME ought to make sure his complaints are factual before printing them. Unfortunately, Hatcher's two examples of the Post-Tribune's "unfairness" to him are false. He says the paper "never even wrote the story" about a study of municipal fiscal policy where Gary came out No. 1. The Post-Tribune did publish two stories. Hatcher also complains, "I was just re-elected with 90% of the vote. After the election the Post-Tribune wrote...
...Michael Chow, proprietor of Mr. Chow's Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, the key questions facing the jury were purely factual ones. Was Guide Gault-Millau correct in asserting that the pancakes served with his Peking duck were "the size of a saucer and the thickness of a finger"? Was it true that his "sweet-and-sour pork contained more dough (badly cooked) than meat," as the pugnacious Parisian guide to New York City proclaimed? To prove otherwise, Chow brought his chef into Manhattan federal district court to demonstrate to the jury his technique for making paper-thin pancakes...
...portrait of an eight-year-old heroin addict. A month later, New York Daily News Columnist Michael Daly admitted that he had made up the name of a British soldier who, he reported, had shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition of the truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published...
Journalists contend that very few factual errors arise from the kind of ideological or political bias that critics, especially conservatives, often allege. Says Mark Ethridge Jr., a professor of journalism at the University of South Carolina and the former editor of the Detroit Free Press: "I find it particularly objectionable that none of our critics will give us credit for stupidity. To them it is always a deliberate distortion." Indeed, even with the best of ability and intentions, reporters find it difficult to ensure that a story is totally sound. Nonetheless, conservative critics argue that almost beyond debate there...
...major objection to demands that Harvard divest stems from the claim that by doing so the University would merely "dissociate itself from the South Africa question" and "walk away from the problem" By investing, he argues, "Harvard University can play an important role in influencing change." However, moral and factual considerations prove this argument unacceptable...