Faking It: Sex, Lies, and Women's Magazines

Posted by Dennis G. Jerz on April 22, 2002 12:00 AM | No Comments | Link to here ∴
Women's magazines regularly fabricate stories about you-know-what: "Many writers, editors and fact-checkers involved with these sex articles (most of whom asked that their identities be protected with the top-secrecy accorded CIA sources) agreed that the editorial standards for them are abysmal." --Faking It: Sex, Lies, and Women's Magazines (Columbia Journalism Review)
Update, 13 Oct 2005: Updated the URL.
Update, 15 May 2009: Updated the URL again.

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