A Tempest Based On A Misquote
By Anna Holmes has a very good piece of media criticism, about how an uncharacteristically sloppy piece by Jodi Kantor led to a series of articles criticizing Sheryl Sanberg’s new book (sight unseen) that worked from the assumption that the misquote was accurate.
The backlash to the backlash has also generated some interesting commentary; see Pollitt and Traister.