The Facts Machine

"And I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide"

Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Drudge and this guy point to last week's Nielsen nonfiction book race, showing Annthrax Coulter's Treason inching ahead of Hillary's Living History.

They show different sets of numbers, but each has Coulter less than two thousand copies ahead of Clinton.

Then, you ask yourself, "why are they using that set of numbers and not linking to the reliable, well-respected NY Times bestseller list?"

Cuz, right smack next to Coulter's book, you find one of these: (+)

Meaning, of course, that bookstores are reporting bulk orders of her book, artificially inflating her sales.

Given her track record of saying, uh, colorful things, perhaps the NYT is asking for trouble when they bring such facts to light.

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