Recent longform failures — from sources like Rolling Stone and SBNation — show what can happen when writers and editors see only what they want to see, Michael Fitzgerald writes: "Sometimes we want to believe our own stories badly enough that we make them true, regardless of the evidence in front of us. That’s what seems to have happened at SBNation when it published, then pulled, a story about Daniel Holtzclaw, the failed football player turned serial rapist."
March 28, 2016
