Word: factualism
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Your recent editorial on Asian-American admissions contained serious factual errors and betrayed a profound misunderstanding of the College's admission policy and its objectives. Our faculty, our undergraduate students, and our alumni/ae have worked too hard for us to allow such inaccuracies to hinder our effort to recruit and admit Asian American applicants...
Unfortunately, Goulden fails to pull together his reporting and explain what made Rosenthal such a great newspaperman and what exactly Rosenthal's legacy is. The book is sloppily edited and riddled with factual errors and misspellings of the names of prominently by-lined Times reporters. At one point, Goulden refers to Rosenthal's semiweekly "On My Mind" column as "On My Head...
...Gift of Gaffe. Nothing frightens the candidates like a debate flub comparable to Jerry Ford's claim that Eastern Europe was not under Moscow's thumb. But it is dangerous to exaggerate the significance of these small slips, especially since both Bush and Dukakis are stronger on factual knowledge than they are on vision. Ignore all the post-debate babble of commentators who like to pounce on gaffes. Turn the tables by giving 2 points to any candidate who catches his own error and offers a graceful correction...
...Democrats have their own truth squad in New Orleans to "provide news organizations with factual information on Democratic candidates and policies and provide response to Republican statements and activities...
DeLillo reconstructs an Oswald and a series of events from the 26 volumes of the Warren Report. Because this is fiction, the outlines of Oswald and of the events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...