| Nat Hentoff |
| My investigations of Nat Hentoff's citations have revealed that Hentoff routinely (apparently) misquotes sources. He alters the original, intended meaning of author's he quotes, in a variety of creative ways, such as, --by altering essential punctuation --by omitting essential words (sometimes without using ellipsi that would reveal the omission to his readers) --by separating sentences that are joined in the original text (thereby creating a false impression that additional emphasis was given to the relevent subject by the quoted author). --failing to tell readers that a quoted author wrote only a small part of a book Hentoff is quoting from (thereby creating a falsely inflated impression of how much space is devoted to the quoted subject in the quoted book). --by changing spelling --by quoting out of context. |
| example 2: Hentoff criticism of Bill Clinton, using out of context sentence quoted from book written by an American judge. |
| example 1: Hentoff's separation of two quoted sentences, giving the false impression that the quoted book is more critical of Fidel Castro than it really is. |