Two Views: On the State of Shoe-Leather Reporting
1/ From James Fallows’s response to Peter Navarro in the Letters section of the October 2007 Atlantic Monthly:
Readers should certainly read Navarro’s book to see his argument in its full version. The notes section of his book begins, ‘Much of the research conducted for this book was done over the Internet.’ All of the research for my article was done on-scene in factories and trading companies in China.
2/ From Caitlin Flanagan’s response to Mike Males in the Letters section of the October 2007 Atlantic Monthly:
In reporting this essay, I attended an eye-opening presentation at my children’s elementary school.