[Hold My Own]

does anyone else think this was intentional? I mean what's the best way to drive up sales? Say things that will create a buzz with all his followers then deny them so they dont get mad, all the while their curiosity is maxed out so they buy it to see what else it says.



I dont know, seems a little to weird to be a simple mistake

[Kolzilla41]

Well, reporters these days are getting harder to trust so it wouldn't surprise me if it was true

[Rooster Cogburn]

Columnists are notorious for this kind of stuff. It doesn't surprise me at all. She probibly does this kind of stuff all the time.

[thepostman]

It blows my mind how inaccurate this whole thing is...

but I do love seeing Godwin fired up...

Will there be any legal action taken, or no?

[TDDance234]

I don't think any legal action could be taken because Dr. Falwell was a public figure.

I'm probably wrong, though.

[Hold My Own]

well public figure or not you cant lie about the person (see some of the law suits going after tabloids) ...I think the whole Falwell Corp being trademarked would be a good angle but that would be if my grandpa wanted to push that or not, and he really couldnt care less

[4everfsu]

Will the paper put out a retraction since they were wrong?

[JDUB]

ha i doubt it

[Sly Fox]

Here's a retraction from a paper closer to the 'Burg ...

Author denies book claims Falwell died broke

by Lindsay Barnes

On Wednesday, August 6, the New York Daily News published a cautionary tale about how the Rev. Jerry Falwell died $20 million in debt thanks to a failed real estate deal. Now it appears the Daily News and other media outlets who reported on the story, like the Atlantic Monthly, New York gossip site Gawker.com– and yes, even the Hook– are the ones who need to be cautioned.

The misinformation was reported in an article about the forthcoming book Falwell Inc. by Forbes reporter Dirk Smillie. The next day, Falwell’s son Jerry Jr. went on local television to deny the report that Falwell had lost even a dime on Liberty Village— a planned Christian community of 1,135 homes that served for a while as training grounds for the Lynchburg police SWAT team, and presently houses some students of Liberty University.

Click Here for Full Story

[LUconn]

wow. Did you read that one post after the article? It leaves me speechless.

[4everfsu]

That one post in the article proves to me that there are stupid people in this world.

[TDDance234]

I was at LU for 5 years and never once heard any of those claims during my time.

In fact, I got a job right out of college BECAUSE my diploma says Liberty on it. It has brought me instant credibility in most of the circles I've looked for a position. What a fool.

[Sly Fox]

Here is excerpt #2 ...

Biblical Bling
Dirk Smillie 08.05.08, 6:00 AM ET

The second of five excerpts from Falwell Inc.: Inside a Religious, Political, Educational and Business Empire by Dirk Smillie ($26, St. Martin's Press, 2008).

Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the ministries of Bible Belt televangelists in the 1970s-80s. But these fortunes would never have materialized without a secular weapon from the North--a Massachusetts marketing outfit begun by a group of twenty-something Harvard business school grads called Epsilon Data Management. Falwell began using the company in 1976; he was the first televangelist to sign up. When his contributions exploded, other preachers like Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts and Rex Humbard contracted with Epsilon and made a pile, too.

Before Epsilon, Oral Roberts used punch tape-driven Friden Flexo-writers. Billy Graham handwrote every homespun fundraising appeal himself. "You could see the buckwheat flying off the paper," recalls Gaylord Briley, one of the top religious fundraisers of the era. In a few years Epsilon was doing work for 7 of the top 10 televangelists in America.

Click Here for Full excerpt

[Sly Fox]

The debate team gets its turn in the excerpts ...

Immaculate Inflection
Dirk Smillie 08.07.08, 10:00 AM ET

The fourth of five excerpts from Falwell Inc. Inside a Religious, Political, Educational and Business Empire by Dirk Smillie ($26, St. Martin 's Press, 2008).

On a Saturday afternoon in a classroom at West Point, the elite military academy overlooking New York's Hudson River, Chase McCool, a 22-year-old senior at Liberty, is on a verbal rampage. His opponents are two young men with crew-cuts and garbed in black dress uniforms, the lapels of which are festooned with gold ships' anchors. They are students at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Click Here for Full Story

[shadrach]

here comes the buzz:

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/opi ... lens/7466/