Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Stephen Glass Would Have Been Just Too Tacky
Ethically challenged Rick Bragg has signed on to "co-write" the Jessica Lynch story.
Meanwhile I keep waiting for the U.S. media to air the Beeb's "War Spin: The Jessica Lynch Story." Wonder what's taking them?
"I feel a kinship with Jessica and her family..," Bragg said in the statement issued by Knopf.I bet he does. For her part I suspect Ms. Lynch's $1 million advance has had a wonderfully refreshing effect on her memory; or does Knopf think it's paying a million simoleons for the considerably less jingoistic reality pieced together by the British press? Money indeed changes everything.
Meanwhile I keep waiting for the U.S. media to air the Beeb's "War Spin: The Jessica Lynch Story." Wonder what's taking them?
