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When asked by the New York Times why books are published whose facts cannot be completely confirmed, Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster, replied, "We operate on a different basis than a newspaper. We don't have a staff of hundreds of reporters to check every book we publish. We start from the assumption that it's the author's book. If it isn't libelous, the weight of responsibility is to let the author tell his story." Korda's candor may come as a shock to laymen who think of newspapers...
...best to check facts," says Korda. "But it is the writer's obligation to be accurate." Any newspaper or magazine editor who used such a justification to publish an unverified story would be lambasted, and rightly so. Korda further argues, "Accuracy is not at issue here; veracity is. Had we said, 'This is the true story of the mission by a man who claims to have led it,' we would be home free...
...only requirements are that, while enrolled in the program, Fellows must live in Cambridge, publish only in the Foundation's quarterly journal--Nieman Reports--and pass at least two courses in any area of the University. In return, they are each given a $12,000 stipend and extensive fringe benefits...
Even such picayune matters as secretarial help were mentioned several times. "In addition to teaching one more course each year [than senior faculty in the department] and having to publish, we also have to type up our own letters and course materials and do our own xeroxing," says a junior language teacher...
Lord also uses an IBM PC to put texts on disk, where he hopes to publish more from the collection and search for key words...