The Confederate Yankee is reporting that The New Republic has canned its head fact checker.:
Interesting (my bold):
The New Republic is looking for an assistant editor to fill an immediate opening in our Washington, DC office. The assistant editor will be responsible for guiding the magazine’s fact-checking department (including overseeing the reporter-researchers), along with writing stories for the magazine and the website. Ideally, you’d be coming into the job with 1-2 years experience fact-checking and reporting, some solid clips, and a passion for the kind of long-form magazine reporting we do. Experience with specifically political journalism is, of course, a major plus — attention to detail and strong research skills are a prerequisite. Send cover letter, resume, and 4-5 clips to Britt Peterson at [email protected] with “assistant editor application” in the subject heading.
Looking at the masthead, the Assistant Editor that TNR is replacing seems to be Keelin McDonell, who was the longest-serving of TNR’s most recent crop of assistant editors.
If she was indeed the “responsible for guiding the magazine’s fact-checking department” during the period Scott Beauchamp published three articles with glaring fact errors in them, it would seem just cause for the magazine to find a replacement.
Which, of course would seem to leave Franklin Foer in place. Foer still has not answered for the Beauchamp thing. He’s been laying low for some time, now. As we saw here just recently, when his name comes up, a silence falls that would make E.F. Hutton jealous.
Personally, this throwing McDonell to the wolves was justified but doesn’t close the case, by any means. There’s still a lot to answer for that the McDonell firing doesn’t begin to deal with.
Tags: BO, Che, Men, NY, WHAT biased press?
