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<br>There are 3 messages totalling 119 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Fabricated anecdotes
<br>  2. Query: PREPONE
<br>  3. Glass
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<br>Date:    Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:23:04 -0400
<br>From:    "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
<br>Subject: Fabricated anecdotes
<br>
<br>Recently, I asked whether there was research on the question of how we
<br>decide that anecdotes are fabricated. Today's NYTimes contains info about
<br>a contemporary scandal involving fabrcted anecdotes. See:
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<br><http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/magazine-fabrication.html>
<br>
<br>Birefly, the story is this:
<br>
<br>-----quoted material - NYTimes 6/12/98-----
<br>There was the article last February about the three
<br>twentysomething White House interns sitting hunched
<br>over vodka martinis in a Washinton bar, "feverishly
<br>speculating about the details of President Clinton's
<br>sex life."
<br>
<br>In that same issue, there was the article about how
<br>environmental special interest groups, like "Truth
<br>in Science, a Christian organization skeptical
<br>of global warming," and the "Association for the
<br>Advancement of Sound Water Policy," use weather reports
<br>to advance their own agendas.
<br>
<br>
<br>And in December 1997, there was a piece about advertisements
<br>encouraging employees to rat on their bosses. "Ads by a Texas drug-testing
<br>lab encourage employees to reveal
<br>whether their boss is using narcotics by sending in a few
<br>hairs and $115," the article said.
<br>
<br>All false. Not one of the above anecdotes or quotes or
<br>sources existed. They are instead the
<br>handiwork of 25-year-old Stephen Glass, a writer who it now
<br>appears made up part or all
<br>of these and 24 other articles in The New Republic over the
<br>last three years.
<br>-----end quoted material-----
<br>
<br>Bethany
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