Great Regulars: There isn't enough time

for the nuts and bolts of verifying facts and, in the case of a memoir, doing a background check on the author.

Publishing houses have also cut staffs about 10 percent recently, [Daniel] Menaker said. "This is a business with a very narrow profit margin, so there have been cutbacks. Now, the industry does seem to be asking for more and more work from fewer and fewer people. There's going to be sloppy mistakes."

from Bob Hoover: Post-Gazette: Separating fact from fiction is author's job

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