The Observer asked a panel of novelists to critique Hillary Clinton's new book. The results weren't pretty. Francine Prose, in particular, took Hillary to task for creating dialogue she couldn't have possibly remembered verbatim and uses the critique to comment on Jayson Blair-style journalism: "Even those of us who have given up the losing battle against the misplaced modifier and the dangling participle still believe that certain rules of English grammar are not optional, and that their importance is not merely linguistic, but philosophical and moral. One of these is the rule that says that to put dialogue between quotation marks signifies (unless you re writing fiction) that those words were spoken as written, and were transcribed directly from what we call real life. I've sometimes wondered if the increasingly common confusion about this simple relationship between truth and punctuation may be at the heart of some of the media's current problems with journalistic ethics and accuracy."
Hillary's 6000 crises [Observer]