Human Nature! Amazing, the LIE is sacred

Human Nature! Amazing, the LIE is sacred

...And unfortunately, has proven to save one's ass and political career since the Clinton's perfected the art.

Excellent post, Mr. Vanderleun!
I didn't know that book publishers basically did no fact checking whatsoever.
Makes sense I guess, since the publisher isn't responsible for lies anyway.
It doesn't help their credibility, but as you say, they have a target audience and their own agenda and obviously they aren't concerned about gaining the potential customers who hold truth to be sacrosanct.

Some magazines have gotten a lot worse than they used to be, or maybe I just notice it more nowdays.
In addition to the New Yorker, Time stands out, and even some "scientific" mags, such as the Smithsonian, which I have cancelled.
I expect many magazines will get worse unless they are sued more often than they are.

It seems as if there are two ways to tackle this.

First, depending on how likely one publishing house is to shaft another, one editor could sick his attack-dog fact checkers on a Presidential book published by another company, and use the resulting firestorm to drum up exposure and sales.

Two, a sufficiently wealthy individual could sue a publisher for false advertising for printing the book as non-fiction, with the implied imprimatur that the content was accurate.

Any thoughts?

BRD