[8mmMauser]

One day....one day.....

[T'wit]

After seeing the long parade of factual mistakes in Schiavo's book, I went to Amazon dot com to see what they had to say about the writer, Michael Hirsh. They called him a "Peabody-award winning documentarian." That's funny! He should have gotten the Janet Cooke-Jayson Blair award for sloppy journalistic fraud.

Hirsh is a senior editor of Newsweek with four supposedly non-fiction books to his credit. If this is all the better he can do checking facts, he should abandon any pretense of reporting and try his hand at writing soap opera for afternoon TV.

[T'wit]

More about Amazon. The reviews -- at least the ones that Amazon was willing to display -- were strongly pro-Michael. The true believers were out! Negative reviews in turn were down near zero in being "helpful" to readers.

However, a look at prices gives the opposite impression. The book was deeply discounted -- meaning it's not selling up to expectation. Some readers were trying to dump used copies for much less than even the discounted price -- meaning it's not a book that one would treasure and keep on one's library shelves (surprise).

Piece of junk.