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Sep 19 2008 8:09am EDT

Never Let the Facts Get in the Way of a Good Lede

From a story in today's New York Post mocking the Times for retracting a quote it had attributed to Morgan Stanley boss John Mack:

"The New York Times is still trying to figure out the old newspaper truism, 'Never let facts get in the way of a good quote.'"

Google search for "Never let the facts get in the way of a good quote": 3 hits

Google search for "Never let the facts get in the way of a good story" (the truism as English-speaking journalists know it): 11,200 hits. □

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