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Loth lamented the rise of “gotcha?? reporting, a tactic meant not to highlight failures of governance so much as to contribute to a reporter’s career...
...Today there is a lot more cynicism and ambition to get ‘gotcha?? moments with a scalp, to make government look bad,” she added...
...Most of the e-mailed ‘gotcha?? messages were either scathing, holier-than-thou or comments on the fallibility of all journalism,” he wrote. “I knew damn well I’d just been plain sloppy and careless...
...Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He accused Wiesel of lying because Wiesel said that when he was 18 years old “I read The Critique of Pure Reason…in Yiddish.” Here is Finkelstein’s “gotcha?? accusation: “The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish” (The Guardian, July 12, 2000). A fairly unambiguous charge. The only problem is that The Critique of Pure Reason was translated into Yiddish and published in Warsaw in 1929. The Harvard Library has a copy...
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