Brass balls: Not as effective as actually calling people
Almost two months ago we ran the headline “Graydon Carter: Sometimes being right isn’t as important as being first” about how Vanity Fair ran the Deep Throat story without fact-checking it against the only two people who ostensibly knew Deep Throat’s identity, Woodward and Bernstein. Carter got credit for having “<a href="brass balls” for going with the story anyway. But after a British court ruled in favor of Roman Polanski over Vanity Fair and parent Condé Nast, it seems that Graydon’s balls may be losing their lustre.
Variety reports that Carter is now on the defensive* for running the offending anecdote (about Polanski hitting on a hot Swedish model days after Sharon Tate’s brutal murder) solely on the 33-year old recollection of Lewis Lapham — without attempting to verify the story by calling the hot model, Beatte Telle (or verifying whether she was, in fact, Swedish, which she is, in fact,...
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