hairyfigment comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 17 August 2011 05:24:21AM 2 points [-]

KENNEDY SCHOOL (2003): The story Pawlak now envisioned was not about {politician}’s propensity to exaggerate, but the fact that the nation’s two leading newspapers had quoted him incorrectly and, consequently, misrepresented his meaning. “And maybe it could go even further,” Pawlak remembers thinking. “Maybe we could explore how easy it was for things to get out of control...One word difference by these two newspapers gets this whole thing blown out of control.” Her editor, however, thought otherwise, and told her, as Pawlak recalls it, “the AP is not in the business of correcting the Times and the Post.”

via Bob Somerby (The Daily Howler) who adds, among other comments:

Darlings! It just isn’t done!