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Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Had it not been hidden behind the subscriber firewall, I would have found this example of The New Republic’s unwillingness to fact check Scott Beauchamp long ago.
It is already widely know that in Beauchamp’s second dispatch, “Dead of Night,” TNR editors did not take the common-sense step of fact-checking the article submitted, […]

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Cross-posted at Protein Wisdom:
By: Jeff G.
TNR:
Although the Army says it has investigated Beauchamp’s article and has found it to be false, it has refused our–and others’–requests to share any information or evidence from its investigation. What’s more, the Army has rejected our requests to speak to Beauchamp himself, on the grounds […]

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