Faking It
Holy crap. First it was plagiarism. Now they're just plain making it all up. See this Publisher's Weekly story: Frey Under Fire; Leroy's Wig Comes Off . Ophrah is going to be sooo wigged out.
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I read the piece that TheSmokingGune.com did and I was just blown away. Yikes. Beats any NYTimes scandal.
Funny, though, I think I heard yesterday on The Today Show that the NY Times first suggested Frey was fabricating more than a year ago. It took The Smoking Gun to smoke him out.
Puns are poor form.
Mea culpa! I jumped the gun here, not realizing Frey's book is a memoir, in which you're allowed to practice creative nonfiction, although I thought that was limited to descriptive elements and emotional reactions to real events. Anyway, the real "more news" is that you can get refunds. Don't know if this link will work for you, but the Times sez:
"Readers calling publisher Random House's customer service line were told they could receive refunds if they had bought the book directly from the publishing house. Random House, a unit of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, issued a statement saying that such refunds were standard procedure.
Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. also said it is standard practice to offer refunds for returned books.
But Publishers Weekly Senior Editor Charlotte Abbott called the Random House refunds unprecedented."
I was actually talking about this whole mess last night at work when one of my more billigerant staff mentioned the book by title and said that his Mom has it. But the real kicker last night was Oprah calling Larry King and basically sticking with Frey on this one, saying that the book was really about a drug addict.
My concern is: are we, as a people, so pacafistic that we can take a break in credability this large and accept it because someone was a "drug addict"? Didn't Rather get strung up because he brought forged documents to light as "news" despite not himself doing the forging?
It all seems like a shame to me.
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