i tend to bend away from the flag, but thanks for your concern.

my understanding is that a large portion of the lynch story is, at best, a dramatic fabrication, if for no other reason that she doesn’t remember and there’s no one else [alive] to tell the story. at worst, it’s government propoganda worked up in the frenzy of war, riding on the back of a wounded servicewoman. since the incident, there have been persistent reports that the “heroic rescue mission” and a few other things along the way didn’t [necessarily] happen the way they were spun up, but anyway… that’s not not the point.

lynch is an “american hero” story, and it will get network airtime, as a “dramatization” and not a “documentary.” the network might even have a little blip of a disclaimer to that effect. showing rather less heroic, but much better-documented aspects of reagan and his presidency, again in “dramatic” rather than “documentary” form is somehow taboo (despite a long history of presidential dramas on network tv).

oh, i almost forgot. you asserted that “nowhere in there does lynch say that the nbc movie is not true” – right. she says the government version of her story isn’t true. that’s this bit here: “I don’t think it happened quite like that,” Lynch said, “though … anyone, you know, in that kind of situation would obviously go in with force, not knowing who was on the other side of the door.” it’s also in the little bit toward the end where she says she wrote a biography witha journalist “to let everyone know my side of the story”

of course, you might have some better version of the truth that i’m missing… and if so, please, do share.

Apparently that’s what you did rather than actually bother to read the story that Lessig links to. Nowhere in there does Lynch says that the NBC movie is not true.

But then, why should you or the professor let facts get in the way?