Imagine you’re a handsome young up-and-coming journalist with a Columbia University neuroscience degree.
Imagine you write for prestigious publications — the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the New Yorker — and land a book deal that seems destined to make you the next Malcolm Gladwell.
Imagine your third book starts with a chapter about Bob Dylan.
Imagine you decide to just make up some quotes from Dylan.
Imagine you get caught.
Advice to journalists: Don’t make up stuff about Dylan. Make up stuff about Sarah Palin. “Nobody will ever fire you for that,” said Joe Maginniss.
Yeah, I just made up that quote. Sue me.
Maybe the kid really did interview Dylan, but when he got home and tried to transcribe Dylan’s quotes, he couldn’t make sense out of them.
Kid journalist: “What was it like growing up in Minnesota?”
Dylan: “Heyyhhnn, mayyhhh waz yeahh . . .”
[note: I’m a Dylan fan].
How does it feel?
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Right on – that song describes it just about perfectly.
Your advice to journalists is so true. He’d still have a job if it had been about Palin.
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Hell, he’d’ve gottten a promotion.
Bob Dylan didn’t say that. Someone else made that happen.