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the Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-facts, and Fake News / Kevin Young
The New Republic may have had no racial difficulties simply because for decades it had been all-white. === Joe McGinniss, perhaps best known more recently for moving next door to Sarah Palin in order to write a book about her. In Malcolm’s narrative he moved in closer, into the defense team for otherwise upstanding military man Jeffrey MacDonald, who stood accused of murdering his pregnant wife and their two daughters. Gaining unparalleled access, McGinniss betrayed him, according to MacDonald (and Malcolm would seem to agree), the journalist not only coming to believe MacDonald was guilty and not saying so but writing that the accused was a psychopath and that the Manson-style murders were his doing alone. === The difference between speech and a quote—between an experiment and a hoax; between a journalist and a murderer; between a cop lying to get a real confession and coercing a fake one—may make all the difference in the world.