Word: incorrection
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THIS IS BRILLIANT intellectual acrobatics, but Barthes is simply incorrect in saying that "the speech of the oppressed" avoids myth. In fact, how could the oppressed ever bear their burdens without myth--and especially without the myth of the Revolution. Myth invades even the writing of the mythologist. The critic must have someplace to stand--for Barthes the someplace is a Marxism which casts the functioning of bourgeois myth into high relief--but that standpoint is itself necessarily a myth, which history and self-criticism will wash away...
When a story like this is incorrect, the result is damaging to innocent individuals and, I would submit, damaging to public confidence in objective reporting by a free press...
...will see that the terms of the June 11, 1970 decision show that the Crimson's report that Miss Messing received an indefinite suspension at that time is also incorrect...
...about this book, the first of several to come out of the study (the next: profiles of every Senator and Congressman). It is tendentious, hostile and superficial, and contains nary a footnote to indicate its sources. Hastily edited, the book is flawed by a number of factual errors and incorrect data. Examples: the book refers to "former Congressman Clem Long"; presumably Maryland Democratic Congressman Clarence Long. It cites Missouri Congressman Richard Boiling for putting his wife on the congressional payroll; she works in his office but is an unpaid volunteer. Senator Mike Mansfield, the book says, served in the House...
...sixtles. We do know that some of Farber's facts originated with the Portuguese and Gulf spokesman, and that he made a last-minute change in his statistical account of the Angolan budget after a Portuguese Embassy official, doing his job, complained that Farber's figures were incorrect...