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Re:All we want are the facts, ma'am. by Herring on Monday February 23, 2009 @09:59PM (#492574)
To be fair, the quote isn't all that wrong. If you know enough to recognize the problems, you probably aren't getting much from the article anyway.
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Re:All we want are the facts, ma'am. by jcl on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:02PM (#493270)
I thoroughly agree with Herring when he said, "To be fair, the quote is wrong."

If you're not going to quote correctly, why quote at all? In this case, it's because the best support Anderson could find for his argument is Peter Norvig's name. Norvig didn't want to give it, but Anderson went and took it anyway.

The most mystifying thing was the fact-checking call. Anderson might as well have said, "Hi, I'm planning to misquote you in a future article. Please say that's OK, because then I'd have slightly more journalistic integrity than when you say no and I go ahead and print it anyway."

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