Talk:Daniel J. Boorstin

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Guy Debord was not a post-modernist... He was a situationist...

Noted and corrected. Feel free to make such changes yourself too. Wikipedia is for all to edit! Also please sign your comments with four tildes so we know who is who. Inoculatedcities 17:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Did Daniel J. Boorstin write This Beats Working For A Living: The Dark Secrets Of A College Professor using the alias "Professor X"?--76.83.249.234 00:30, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lawsuit

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"According to some former employees, verbal abuse was common while he was chief librarian. In two separate lawsuits, three plaintiffs who worked with Boorstin claimed they endured verbal and sexual misconduct and innuendo and an environment in which women did not feel safe. Those cases were later dismissed. Boorstin was sued in 1975 for plagarism in a case that was later thrown out of court. Plaintiff Kevin Weldon was later convicted of fraud and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

Arguably, the material could be restored -- but appropriate in-line citations would be needed, at a minimum. In my view, the fact that these lawsuits were denied by the courts seems significant. If the courts found no merit in these complaints, why should this Wikipedia article give them greater credence? I'm skeptical about this entire section ..., but I suppose we should remain open to the possibility that there might be verifiable references which will help us to see these otherwise unsubstantiated allegations in a different light> --Ooperhoofd (talk) 00:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)