I’m used that type of response by now, everything that doesn’t suit a particular theory must be some journalists mistake...like the one the kenyan made when he told the Hawaiian interviewer in 1962 that he had not been back to Kenya for 7 years.
Or the journalist who interviewed the kenyan’s teacher at the school in Maseno, who pulled out the numbered and named attendance cards from the fifties and said that the kenyan left to go to the US as soon as he finished his term at the school, in 1954...and that his older brother left the school before he did; an older brother who was TWO years older, born in 1934 - probably with the same birthdate as the kenyan used on his scholarship application.
you’ve got nothing but theories, Lucy is right, no one cares what you THINK.
Because it’s evident to me that if there is information out there that places any doubt on your THINKING you immediately resort to the ‘the journalist made a mistake’ position.
The fact that he wrote two different articles, one with five mistakes in it and one without any mistakes, makes it easy to see that they are mistakes. Were they not, they would be in both articles.
Apart from that, the kooky stuff he said conflicts very seriously with OTHER evidence. It is far simpler to count it as a reporters mistake than to explain it any other way.
I don't know about you, but i've been interviewed by reporters (Both Newspaper and Television reporters) dozens of times. The one thing I can guarantee is that they NEVER get it right. The best you can hope for is that they don't make TOO MANY mistakes.
But this is really simple. If you want, *I* will attempt to Contact Bill Lawson and ASK him if these were mistakes.
I have just sent an email to Bill Lawson at the Maumelle Monitor asking him to clarify his article of November 13, 2008. I specifically asked him about Barry’s mother having died in 1970.
If he responds, I will let you know what he said.