Fact (US magazine)

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Fact
Editor Ralph Ginzburg
FrequencyQuarterly
PublisherTrident Press
Founded1964
First issueJanuary 1964
Final issueAugust 1967
CountryUS
Based inNew York City
Language English
ISSN 0429-9825
OCLC 1568723

Fact was an American quarterly magazine that commented on controversial topics. It was in circulation between January 1964 and August 1967. [1]

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History

The publisher of Fact was Trident Press based in New York City. [2] The magazine was edited by Ralph Ginzburg and Warren Boroson [3] and designed by Herb Lubalin. [4]

Fact was notable for having been sued by Barry Goldwater over a 1964 issue entitled "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater". In Goldwater v. Ginzburg , a federal jury awarded Goldwater $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages, to punish Ginzburg and the magazine for being reckless. The American Psychiatric Association then issued the Goldwater rule reaffirming medical privacy and forbidding commenting on a patient whom the individual psychiatrist has not personally examined. [5]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the award and the Supreme Courts denied a petition for certiorari (review); Justice Black and Justice Douglas joined a dissenting opinion, rather unusual at the time (1970) on orders denying "cert." [6]

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References

  1. Maria Popova (January 5, 2011). "Ralph Ginzburg's fact: Vintage Wikileaks?". Brain Pickings. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  2. Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1967: July–December. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1971. p. 1793. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  3. Meggs, Philip B. “Two Magazines of the Turbulent ‘60s: a ‘90s Perspective.” Print 48 (Mar–Apr 1994): 68–77 OCLC   201042699
  4. "Eros, Fact and Avant Garde". designishistory.com. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  5. Richard A. Friedman (May 23, 2011). "How a Telescopic Lens Muddles Psychiatric Insights". New York Times. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
  6. 414 F.2d 324, 337 (2d Cir.1969), cert. denied, 396 US 1049, 90 S.Ct. 701, 24 L.Ed.2d 695.

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