Coulter caught in another lie (yawn) but Bowden gives up too easily
The gist of the story is that the author of "Black Hawk Down" got "Coulterized," not only having his words twisted by having Coulter's illogical thinking put words and conclusions down as if the author, Mark Bowden, had made the claims.
I'm surprised that anyone doing journalism would link the profession of journalism and the skills of a reporter with Anne Coulter. There are hacks now and there always have been hacks. Just because someone is on TV or Internet doesn't make them a reporter or reputable.
I think Bowden is only partially right in his fear and sense of helplessness about the lie being out there.
Mark Twain once observed that a lie can circle the Earth before the truth gets its boots on. Coulter's claim that Mark Bowden warned of 60,000 to 100,000 U.S. deaths has been so widely reprinted and distributed that I could never effectively debunk it. It is out there in the ether, and there it shall remain. My note to her went unanswered, which tells you something. If journalism proceeds down this sloppy path, it is likely to turn up in my obituary.Source: philly.com
I think Bowden and his friends and friends of the truth can contextualize lies like this by surrounding the lie with links to truths and original sources, so that it will difficult to present the lie the ties to the truth about it, at least for its electronic existence in search engines and robots. But I hope that whether you are an old school or nouvelle geek journalist, you can tell the difference between polemicist bloviators like Coulter and real reporters. Coulter? She is not a journalist, she just plays one on TV. See this link for an objective analysis of Coulter's credibility (or lack of it.)
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