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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.

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