Franklin Foer
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Franklin Foer (born 1975) is an American political journalist and the editor of The New Republic. Foer graduated from Columbia in 1996. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News & World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization.
Foer is older brother to novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and freelance science journalist Joshua Foer. He lives in Washington, D.C.
[edit] 'Shock Troops' controversy
In July 2007, after The New Republic published an article by an American soldier in Iraq titled "Shock Troops," allegations of inadequate fact-checking were leveled against Foer. Critics alleged that the piece contained inconsistent details indicative of fabrication. The identity of the anonymous soldier, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, was revealed. Foer originally insisted that he was standing by the stories. As a result of the controversy, the New Republic and the United States Army launched investigations, reaching different conclusions.[1][2][3]
After five months, in an online article published at "The New Republic's" website, Foer wrote that the magazine could no longer stand by Beachamp's stories.
[edit] References
- ^ Army Private Discloses He Is New Republic's Baghdad Diarist
- ^ Doubts Raised by 'Baghdad Diarist'
- ^ Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard, Fact or Fiction?
