[Ads-l] Quote Investigator Makes the News

[Yagoda, Ben]

On a related note, my Lingua Franca column today is about a widely circulating e-mail chain containing 25 supposed Will Rogers quotes. <Spoiler alert.> It would appear that every single one of them is fake.

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/02/12/will-rogers-said-that-except-he-didnt/

Ben

On Feb 13, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu<mailto:Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu>> wrote:

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There is a controversy raging about a fake Lincoln quote promulgated by the=
GOP, and of course people are turning to Quote Investigator for the facts:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-posts-fake-lincoln-quote_us_58a0b77=
8e4b094a129ec104c?


Congratulations to Garson O'Toole, whose quoteinvestigator.com website has =
clearly become the place the Internet goes to for the truth about popular q=
uotations.  This is not a trivial status, as our society is currently facin=
g assaults on the very notion of truth, assaults unimaginable before Electi=
on Day.  Quotations play a significant role in political discourse, and we =
are lucky to have Quote Investigator available as a bulwark of quotation ac=
curacy.


Fred Shapiro

Editor

Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press)

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