If you want to see the depths to which news fact checking has fallen in the United States, be amused that the first reporter to post an article about Dan Dorfman?s passing on June 17th, incorrectly reported his age as 82. That error has been repeated at more than two dozen other publications from coast to coast. Dan was born on October 24, 1931. By my calculations he was 80 when he died, a simple reporting mistake he would never have made. He was always checking all the facts in his articles to make sure they were as accurate as they could be.
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