The Washington Post article* linked to in that The Atlantic blurb is much better than the scant details The Atlantic tried to summarize about this story. The Atlantic (formerly known as the The Atlantic Monthly) used to be a really fine literary publication but has drastically declined since about the mid-1990s beginning with management upsets and eventually relocating from it's long seated position in Boston to its advertising (<--key word) division in Washington DC. The so-called new The Atlantic has turned into a skeleton of it's former self, from my reading experience over a few decades. I do however have The Atlantic App installed on my smart phone device, not that that changes my feelings about the current quality of this publication. :smile * RI doctor, noted numismatist, pleads guilty in NY rare-Italian-coin case _ with a twist from The Washington Post on July 4th 2012 This WP article sheds light on the arrests made at this years NYINC that some folks of this forum discussed earlier in the year. Check it out.
I wonder if the old boy will get any royalties for the punitive publishing he must do...... Bad Doctor. Very bad Doctor......
The punishment Sounds like a slap on the wrist For how much hooey that's been made about the arrests and impact on the hobby
Maybe CoinTalk can merge the various threads on Dr. Weiss into one. http://www.cointalk.com/t209273 There has been speculation that the coins were real but that Dr. Weiss hired or contacted someone to say they were fake, as he would be guilty of a much lesser crime that way. Too bad the old television show "Law and Order" isn't around any more. This story was made for it.
I would just like to know who is the editor for The Atlantic. Does anyone proofread any more, or do "journalists" just type their stories on their smartphones and let the infamous AutoComplete take care of the rest?
I was listening to a commentary on a radio talk show about news stories for magazines and newspapers from a writer/submitter. With the advent of blogs and twitter and the like, it's cheaper for editors to buy and copy these then it is to pay staff for their stories. Cut and paste seems to be the way it's moving now and I'm sure editors are probably just scanning relevant articles rather than proofreading them.
Those editors may not proofread the stories for errors, but you can bet they proofread their paychecks for errors..... (I'm just sayin).
A lot of them aren't collecting pay checks any longer. Have you seen the profitability of, for example, the NY Times? Or noticed that it covers maybe 1/3 of the news it did 15 years ago. US News and World report, my favorite, went out of business....etc
I must have missed that somehow... I probably didn't read about it...... (thank you, thank you....don't forget to tip your waitress and please try the veal).
