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...like a rhetorical faux pas, three separate appeals to Wikipedia, HarperCollins American Slang, and the Oxford English Dictionary in the first chapter serve as early signals of McGinn’s need for filler. The way McGinn delves into the concept also seems a little imbalanced. For about 30 pages of the 80-page text, he concerns himself with the task of explaining just why the obscenity of the term is integral to its meaning—barely squeezing significance out of the parallels between the words “fucking” and “mindfucking...
...message was clear. Not only would Will and his editors at the editorial page not apologize for misleading their readers, but the ombudsman, supposedly the readers’ voice at the paper, would defend the distortions. At every level, the Washington Post is prepared to support writers who lie in its pages...
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...column arguing against a cap-and-trade system or carbon tax would have provoked a similar uproar. The objection is rather to Will’s repeated mischaracterization of his sources in support of assertions that are simply erroneous. The piece’s presence on the op-ed page does not excuse the editors of the Post’s decision not to pull a column they know is full of errors or penalize Will...
This should trouble everyone publishing in the Post’s pages, from its metro reporters to its style editors. The decision to run Will’s piece has instilled in the public considerable doubt about the publication’s veracity as a whole. If a reader cannot trust that the facts cited on the Post’s op-ed page are true—and, after the Will incident, she cannot—why should she trust the facts in its news coverage or its investigative journalism...