Penguin declares Klein biased, sticks author with onus for accuracy

[rodeodance]

Even Rush L. is trying to distance conservatives from this book! (another story on mediamatters.org).
I am going to email this prick at Penquin.


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Penguin declares Klein biased, sticks author with onus for accuracy

In a statementPDF file posted June 22 on its website, Penguin Group (USA), which owns the imprint Sentinel, publisher of Edward Klein's The Truth About Hillary, attempted to wash its hands of the controversy surrounding the book. The statement claimed that "the opinions and viewpoints" in the book do not reflect those of Penguin or its parent company, Pearson plc.

In a passage impugning its own author's sense of journalistic fairness, Penguin declared that "factual accuracy does not mean unopinionated or unbiased. Mr. Klein's interpretation of what he reports is unabashedly his opinion. Neither he nor Sentinel pretend otherwise."

Not only did Penguin impugn Klein's fairness, it refused to stand by the accuracy of his book, stating that "it is the long-established and legally recognized practice in book publishing that it is the author's responsibility to assure factual accuracy."

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The statement, which is linked from the front page of the Penguin website with the headline "Penguin Group (USA) Corporate Response to Widespread Reaction," falsely implied that critics of the Klein book might favor "censorship."

[rodeodance]

1. new motto for Penquin Pub. 'We publish trash"

[punpirate]

2. Penguin is a British imprint...

... and it may be laying ground for avoiding lawsuit under British law for books printed in the UK and for distribution in that market. Clinton could file suit in the UK for libel (and the standards for that in the UK are much more liberal than in the US).

Sounds like typical CYA stuff to me. Wimpy, yeah, but still, CYA.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Does this mean that

Penguin Group will not accept any money from sale of such biased material? just curious.

[rodeodance]

5. hardly--it is more like--anything for a buck!!!1

[blm]

4. And why was Fortunate Son, w/ all its footnotes, burned by its publisher?

And, why was the Swift Liars' book given credence by the rightwing pundits when EVERY NAVAL RECORD proved they were lying?

[rodeodance]

6. people read trash?

.......nd, why was the Swift Liars' book given credence by the rightwing pundits when EVERY NAVAL RECORD proved they were lying?

[housewolf]

7. Penguin ought to fire Klein's editor

for allowing such inaccurate, unvalidated "stuff" to be published under their auspices as "a biography."