No fact-checkers at the New Yorker

Here's a piece of trivia from the 1988 movie "Bright Lights, Big City":

"Gotham", the fictitious New York magazine for which Jamie Conway works as a fact-checker, is clearly an unflattering caricature of "The New Yorker", where author/screenwriter Jay McInerney had also worked as a fact-checker.

Looks like Jamie Conway isn't the only person incapable of checking facts there: "Shocker: Jane Mayer’s new New Yorker hit job on Mitch McConnell is anchored by a totally bogus narrative."

Shocking, I know.