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| New Yorker Golden Boy quits after faking Bob Dylan quotes |
| 2012-08-01 |
| As Bob Dylan once said: If you can't be good, be good at it. I may have made up that last bit A publishing industry that is notoriously ill-equipped to root out fraud. A magazine whose famed fact-checking department is geared toward print, not the Web. And a lucrative lecture circuit that rewards snappy, semi-scientific pronouncements, smoothly delivered to a corporate audience. All contributed to the rise of Jonah Lehrer, the 31-year-old author, speaker and staff writer for The New Yorker, who then executed one of the most bewildering recent journalistic frauds, one that on Monday cost him his prestigious post at the magazine and his status as one of the most promising, visible and well-paid writers in the business. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 It is lunacy to both think Bush is dumb and agree I look good in a hat. -Bobby Zimmerman |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-08-01 18:40 |
| #3 If you think Minnesota is cold, you should have heard that honest appraisal of my music. -Bobby Zimmerman |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-08-01 18:30 |
| #2 I would think you would have to make them up as, every time I have heard Dylan speak, I can't understand a fucking word he says... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-08-01 17:44 |
| #1 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/04/30/is-bob-dylan-a-phony.html that is kind of funny as Zimmerman was also known to lift lyrics from other musicians and even straight from a novel ("confessions of a yakuza")...I heard he was also accused of plagiarizing paintings or some such. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2012-08-01 11:29 |