Thursday, February 16, 2012

Facts Are Stupid

D?Agata?s co-author, fact-checker Jim Fingal, thinks the line is clear. He spends Lifespan fighting D?Agata about questionable statements both tiny (is the brick at the base of the tower red or brown?) and enormous (did D?Agata, manning a Las Vegas suicide hotline, really talk to the boy, Levi Presley, the night he died?), but D?Agata finds his queries a waste of time. When Fingal challenges D?Agata?s false claim that a quiz Presley took three years before his death was ?the last pop quiz he took in school.? D?Agata pushes back nonetheless: ?Really, Jim, you?re worrying about very stupid shit.? ?Unfortunately,? Fingal responds archly, ?I don?t get to decide which facts are stupid. I have to check all of them.?

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=08c94e5d2de941eb285c3d7ba0106f6b

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