Re: Vonnegut speech NOT

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

I find it interesting that the retraction and explanation is
spreading on the library lists just about as fast as the originals
were posted.  It's nice to know that we (as a group) practice what we
teach.

Dan Robinson
Editorial Specs Specialist
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx,  NY
drobinson@info.hwwilson.com

On  6 Aug 97 at 12:12, Alice Yucht wrote:

> On the front page of the Metro section of the 8/6 NYTimes there is
> an article about how a column written by a woman that was printed in
> a newspaper is being sent around the net attributed as a MIT
> graduation speech of Kurt Vonnegut.  Not only did he not write those
> words (although he is quoted in the article as saying that he
> thought what the columnist wrote was touching and well done), he
> didn't give the commencement address at MIT.  Someone was evidently
> being cute.
>
> Another case for the Information Detectives?
>
> (ok, I confess. . .  I was the one who told Joyce to post the
> original to you-all, after she'd sent it to me.  Please forgive me
> for this transgression, but just think -- it does make a great
> example to use when teaching the need to verify authority, doesn't
> it?)
>
> Alice H. Yucht
> Heritage Middle School Library (as of 9/97)
> Livingston, NJ
> Aliceinfo@aol.com
>
>

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