In an interview Friday, U.S. Army private Scott Thomas Beauchamp’s wife Elspeth Reeve, a former reporter-researcher at The New Republic, told the Observer that she was excited when someone at the magazine assigned her to fact-check one of her husband’s dispatches from Iraq.
“I was like, ‘Sweet! I can talk to Scott on Read More
New Republic editor Frank Foer’s nearly 7,000-word retraction of his magazine’s Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories has already received plenty of attention since appearing this weekend. But it’s not immediately clear what precipitated its publication.
Based on Mr. Foer’s account, it does not appear that TNR‘s four-and-a-half-month investigation turned Read More
New Republic editor Franklin Foer has offered an in-depth look at the magazine’s painstaking efforts to verify its three Baghdad Diarist columns, written by Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a soldier in Iraq. Conservative bloggers had challenged some of the anecdotes described in the columns, and Mr. Foer now concludes:
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Last week, New Republic editor Franklin Foer released a statement detailing the results of an internal investigation of columns written by Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is stationed in Iraq.
Under the name Scott Thomas, three columns offered harrowing accounts of the experiences (and degraded morals) of troops. Scenes include an Iraqi boy whose tongue Read More
