Does the New York Times Fact Check?
Today's New York Times (April 7, 2008) has a pretty interesting article about the cuisine in Italian restaurants (in Italy), and how much of it is being cooked by foreign immigrants. How does that affect the cuisine, how do Italians feel about it, etc. etc. All of which is quite lovely to read, if you can get past this sentence: But what is really interesting is that the above quote is from the print edition - the online edition actually says: So, between the time I read the paper this morning
Depending on the publication, fact checking can be far more thorough than that -- and often is. Having written for the New York Times on a few occasions, I can tell you that every factual claim I've made has had to be substantiated by references provided to my editor. Definitions of culinary terms are exactly the sort of thing the New York Times fact checks rigorously, so my guess is that this one just slipped through the cracks -- perhaps because the story didn't get edited by the dining-sectio