Our amazing liaison reached out to a few publishers to see if the errors would be fixed before the title went to print and often received no response. Some of them definitely remained in final copy.
When I served on a children’s lit committee at work we would disqualify NF for factual errors or lack of citations. I know kids books aren’t edited as rigorously as adult books (that’s another convo) but some of the errors I caught were EGREGIOUS
CBS norms haven’t eroded that much. You can draw a line from the 1980 white House suppression of the El Mozote massacre, with an assist from CBS, to Bari Weiss’s suppression of the CECOT story. Pobre El Salvador.
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children's media was the first area to be really fully overtaken by slop, and it's a sign of the enormous contempt in which our society has long held children. minus a few outliers, nearly all the decent American kids' media of the 20th century was produced by PBS
*sitting with my banjo being recorded by a smithsonian folkways ethnomusicologist* i worked the stirring pole at the goo factory for 35 years. we used to have a saying down to the factory "the goo is thick but never hardens". this here is a little song called "goo boy stomp"
“oh i don’t have a twitter i just use insta” oh? you don’t want to be on twitter? don’t want to get down in the mud with the rest of us? just want to sit back and enjoy the screenshots of our labor? marx warned about people like you
no one prepared me for the fact that when you have a 9-5 you can't like. go to the dentist or the doctor or anything anymore. because you work. and when you don't work they're closed