Word: factualism
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...Well, you ask, what else is new? All biopics contain inventions and conflations in their attempts to give coherence and dramatic impact to messy and ambiguous lives. We don't go to such films in search of full factual accuracy. Generally, we want inspiration from them, a sense that we can take meaning, even moral instruction, from the life on view. Fur, however, raises these stakes. It invents an entirely imaginary figure-a grotesquely hirsute man-and brings him to the center of the story. Where he serves as the beast to Diane's beauty, horrifying her, titillating her, then...
...reveal is he’s a magnificent friend. We have a friendship beyond Watergate and beyond working together. He is one of the people who, when people say your books are this way or that, he reads them and realizes that they are not political but factual, though he would personally take more of a stand on things. I am a non-partisan, ink-stained, 63-year-old reporter…if you can get ink on you from a computer. I do, from my laser jet printer. Sometimes, it sprays...
...Harvard graduate and co-founder of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), I was appalled by your editorial, “Keep Science in Print” in which you condemn our new journal PLoS One. The article is too ill-informed and riddled with factual inaccuracies to be taken seriously as an attack on our efforts to rejuvenate peer review by opening up the process to all members of the scientific community. I would normally feel compelled to correct all these errors, but fortunately I don’t have to. Perhaps sensing the opportunity for delicious irony...
...passed away." This three-word sentence allegedly spells out the factual conclusion of all earthly sources: reports by New York State Police, announcements by the Eliot resident dean, and declarations by the hospital and the embassy. Yet I cannot imagine that Hui is no longer with us: whether I’m rushing to Pfizer Lecture Hall in the morning, walking by John Harvard statue before lunch, or contemplating in my bedroom deep at night, I always seem to glimpse Hui’s image around the corner, as if about to come forward and pat on my shoulder while...
...It’s a pretty disappointing example of media incompetence, intentional or otherwise, but the most troubling element is the frequency with which it occurs. This individual case is unlikely to change voter attitudes, but it shows convincingly how much a minor factual omission changes perspective. The U.S. electorate deserves better coverage; otherwise the true nature of American actions abroad will never be exposed and evil will continue to be dishonestly perpetrated in America’s name...