When it was revealed, earlier this year, that a best-selling memoirist had made up much of his ordeal, and that a well-known writer of ostensibly autobiographical fiction was no more than a maudlin hoax, a discussion ensued about the veracity of contemporary autobiographical writing and the fact-checking responsibilities of publishers.
Something she's really pleased about is that she's starting to hear a lot more men say that they need to check childcare responsibilities before taking on an extra task.
As it stands, some sanity-checking responsibility clearly falls to backers — who are able to click a button to report a project they believe might be suspect.
The state assistance office will also have the responsibility of checking on the Suffolk Department of Social Services' compliance.
Since no one knows your skin and its many markings better than you, you have primary responsibility for checking often for any changes that could herald skin cancer.
But he acknowledges that the current system, in which the airlines have the responsibility for checking names against the lists, leads to "inconsistencies".
Still, while the settlement requires the company to take more responsibility for checking the statute of limitations before it contacts consumers, he said most states did not require debt collectors to do that.
Sarah Brooks, director of financial services at Consumer Focus said: "As the committee has highlighted, the [OFT] rules themselves are not stringent enough to ensure payday lenders are lending responsibility and checking their customers' ability to repay loans.
As part of its new tack of evaluating behavior patterns, the agency plans to take over more responsibility for checking passenger identification and boarding passes at more airports, where most of those jobs are now done by outside contract workers.
Speaking of which, like most dating sites and social networks, Meet at the Airport states in its fine print (seriously, I needed a magnifying glass) that "it does not take responsibility in checking the truth or accuracy of any information posted to the website" and that it does not "screen the content of any information provided to it".
