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okay Soul. Cards on the table time. Last question I will ask on this matter.
Which parts are you against being in the biography. Maybe I am confused as far as which parts you are upset about
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Originally Posted by
soulman 
You missed the bullseye there. What I was saying, which is kinda clear, is that, if an author knows something about their subject that they are doing a full investigation on, yet decides not to place it in their work, THEN and ONLY then, are they a hack...
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For the record, I get SI every week thanks to my inlaws who think that I must love it because I love sports (nevermind that everything in it is week old news). What came to my door was the Phillies cover and a small icon in the corner for the Payton excerpt. The excerpt, to me, is obviously an extreme case of cut/paste out of context. I read it on Sunday morning, and it lacks "flow" and sometimes doesn't even make sense. Only saying this because as I read it a second time it seemed like these were snippets pulled together for the purpose of creating something more than the parts.
In my conclusion, SI is far more of the sensationalist than Pearlman.
Winston Churchill:
"Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
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Originally Posted by
soulman
Where does is say anything about needing verifiable facts and if that's a commonly accepted practice where in the definiton does it say ALL verifiable facts. It would seem to me that the author could chose what he or she wished to include and leave out that which he or she didn't. It says nothing about completeness nor does it define incompleteness as not being biographical.
It doesn't define it as "A humans life down to the smallest detail in it's course" either and it doesn't say that the author isn't permitted to speculate about that which cannot be proven fact and still have a biography considered to be biographical.
So which is it...do you want it to include nothing but "verifiable facts," or do want it to include speculations that cant be verified? Cant have it both ways.
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