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The Success of Fire and Fury: What’s at Stake for Publishers

By Esa Grigsby

March 30, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Success of Fire and Fury: What’s at Stake for Publishers

Regardless of whether Wolff’s book is libel or an accurate portrait of Trump’s White House (my guess is we won’t know for a while), by expediting the pub-date and moving forward with Fire and Fury, Henry Holt was able to do something that’s becoming harder and harder these days—something that the American Association of Publishers holds in high regard: exercising and protecting our First Amendment rights, the backbone of US democracy. And so what if the driving reason behind publishing was to capitalize on a money-making trend? Henry Holt isn’t alone.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: aap, democracy, fact checking, fire and fury, first amendment, freedom of speech, henry holt, history and literature, michael wolff, politics, politics in publishing, publishers, trend, trends, trump

The Truth is Out There: Fact Checking in Editing

By Ooligan Press

April 15, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

By Rebekah Hunt There are a lot of things that are considered to be common knowledge. For example, did you know that karaoke is Japanese for tone-deaf? Did you know that Mr. Rogers was a Navy SEAL? Did you know that chewing gum takes seven years to pass through your digestive system? Well, unfortunately for […]

Filed Under: Inside Ooligan Tagged With: common knowledge, Editing, fact checking, Georgia, Golden Gate Bridge, Google+, information, magazine, Navy SEAL, newspaper, ooligan press, San Francisco, Star Trek, urban legends, writing

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