3. Here's a Washington Post write-up of the problems with Talese's book, which he's now seemingly disavowing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/author-gay-talese-disavows-his-latest-book-amid-credibility-questions/2016/06/30/1fede2b8-3e22-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html …
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Herodotus.
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Sure, our notions of "factual accuracy" very recent. I sometimes think they were invented by The New Yorker!
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isn't the Orwell thing debated? I stopped following the debate but thought it was far from settled
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a lot of documentary/reportage based nonfiction has been more invested in being true than fact-checkable
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