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"Checkpoints" Katelyn Clews

This is definatly a different artical, but i suppose not one of McPhee's articles are really much a like. maybe only for the fact that they are about random things, that most really wouldnt think to write about. This article seems to pull you in in the first few paragraphs. He begins to talk about another artical he had written about Japenesse baloons. When reading just the first few paragraphs, you think that thats whats he's going to be wrting about. Once you get a little more into, you realize that the main point in this article is about the importance of facts, and checking your facts before writing or publishing them. He says that whatever is published is there forever, you cant take it back, and fix it. McPhee stated that even he takes this seriosly. And even when he makes mistakes, he owns up to them.

I really admire McPhee's style in writing. I know we arent suppost to talk about if we liked the articlee, or if we thought it was boring, but when i first read the title i actually thought it was going to be a little dull. But McPhee has a way of pulling people in, and making his articles interesting. I really like how he can take something like checking facts, and make it somewhat comical aswell. In the article, he said that someone had written an artical about an older man, and stated that he had already died. The older man read this, and was offended, and demanded that in the next publication it be fixed. So in the next publication they fixed it, and made it know that this older man was still infact alive, but a day or 2 before the pulication came out, the old man had died, and yet again, the facts in the article were false.