Why isn’t fact checking easy?

Get your facts right, they said. All the companies featured in the publication I was working on were multinationals and household names. And their top people had been interviewed for the accompanying worldwide TV series, so it wasn’t like I was being asked for...

In which the writer gets in the way

The writing shouldn’t come between the reader and what’s being described. And the writer shouldn’t get in the way, like a small petulant child tugging at your elbow: “Look, look at this. Let me show you something.” Look at the following sentences, all of which contain...