Brooklyn art student Thomas Calabrese was just trying to do his homework, but music bloggers desperate for a scoop were quick to believe that his faux Vampire Weekend album cover was the real deal.
The New York Times' After Deadline blog has a noteworthy semantical discussion today in light of the presidential debates and all the fact-checking and talking about fact-checking that's guaranteed to keep happening until the election on November 6, and maybe afterward, too. Let us count the ways in which we incorrectly use the word fact.
When Paul Ryan said he ran a sub-three hour mile, his bluff was called. Turns out runners are dedicated people who take their times to heart, and Ryan's time was closer to four hours. Now, his brother is claiming it only took him three weeks to train for it.
Paul Ryan takes fitness very seriously. He takes it so seriously there is real demand to see him with his shirt off. But when he told a radio host his best marathon time was under three hours, Runner's World went looking for the truth.
Today in books and publishing: Jacob Silverman thinks there's an epidemic of niceness in book world; Nabokov rhapsodizes about boxing; a start-up that datamines books; teen Rookie editor gets a book deal.
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