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July 17, 2014

Sorry Just One More Thing and Then I'll Stop

I know there's real news, and I'll get to some I promise, but just indulge me for a minute.

Pollack catalogues all of Vox's frequent errors of fact just on the topic of Israel (it's an impressive list, and remember, these guys haven't been in business for but a few months), and then concludes:

The joke used to be that Vox's scribblers produced their "cards" by consulting Wikipedia, but that's probably unfair to Wikipedia. Said scribblers likely would have caught all of their errors if they'd actually bothered to consult the frequently unreliable online encyclopedia.
The problem is much deeper. There is a disconnect between what Fisher and Beauchamp think they know and what they actually know, and it's why all of this is just so damn funny. The disconnect is obvious to everyone but the two writers themselves. They’re the joke, but they're not in on it.

I'm curious to know who their editor is.

I have a good guess, but it's only a guess.

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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