I’m always happy to integrate requested changes into my articles. I can easily accept that other scholars are more knowledgeable or more attentive than I am. What I can’t accept is the extreme naivete of some people.
The novelist I’m analyzing in one of my articles mentioned in an interview that several of the journalists who spoke to him about his novel confessed that the main character sounded so real that they Googled her to see if she was an actual person.
“That can’t be right,” both my reviewers wrote. “Googling is a very primitive way of conducting research. Surely, journalists prepare for interviews in a more responsible way.”
I don’t know how to break it to these idealistic scholars that even Googling something is too onerous for most journalists. We have to be grateful if they try to find out anything at all about their subject.
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