Addendum to previous post

(By Erik)

In my previous post I asked why the falsehoods in A Million Little Pieces were exposed by a Web site called The Smoking Gun and not by one of the “traditional” news outlets.

I was reading Slate.com today and discovered that a reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune actually started asking questions about the book way back in 2003. This reporter exposed some discrepancies in the text and even talked to the publisher, who was on Oprah yesterday.

So why did The Smoking Gun get credit for debunking the book? I’m guessing because the Star Tribune’s story appeared before the book made Oprah’s Book Club.

Timing is everything in this business. At least my faith in newspapers is restored.

The Slate story is here.