On 10/19/14 3:01 PM, John Hopkins wrote:
On 19/Oct/14 08:53, David Mandl wrote:
It seems clear that the New Yorker is no longer home of the best
fact-checking/copyediting humankind can achieve.
It takes time and energy to impose order on a system. Clearly many many
segments of the 'developed world' are manifesting the inevitable decrease
in the energy available to maintain their own order.
Or, the perceived decline in fact-checking could rather be the result of
a continued ascendance of the formal rituals of accountancy which t
bytfield mentioned, combined with a networked innundation of "facts."
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