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.
You continue to refer to FIVE mistakes. Would you care to make a list? It might be productive to look at the five of them individually...
And you may just have a little problem with your journalist, notice how both articles are still up? If the second article that he wrote about an hour after the first was meant to be a correction, why is the first - containing your ‘five mistakes’ - still there?
Initially, article number two carried the message - this is Virginia Goeldner’s first interview - but that has now been removed.
Write to the author by all means, but after what you have said about reporters, why would I believe any response you might recieve?