July 13, 2023

The Docket 07.13.23 First-degree fabulism

What making up stories costs all of us

the true crime that's worth your time

The different degrees of fabulism; media’s “grand tradition” of plagiarizing; the embattlement spiral of local journalism; prospective class actions against harmful fakes; how long ago the Rolling Stone/UVA story seems; editor spidey-sense; whether it’s harder to come back from journo misconduct than sexual; and the glorious disaster that would have been Capote on socials.

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• the Best Evidence RSS feed

• the Jonny Auping tweet

• some of our Caliphate coverage

• The Guardian looked back at the RS story and lessons learned in 2019

• how to help striking writers

• NYT’s scathing review of Jayson Blair’s memoir

• the “plagiarism and inaccuracies” section of “Ruth S. Barrett”’s Wikipedia page

• on whether plagiarism is “true crime”

• more on Stephen Glass

• Eve on The Art Thief

• Toobin on Fairstein

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