Ben Carson and the Fog of Memory

The Huffington Post published this article I wrote over the weekend.  Worth keeping in mind as (I suspect) news organizations devote more resources to confirm or debunk stories he has told about his life over the years.

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Investigative Reporting Goes To The Movies

This afternoon, I went to a screening of Spotlight, the new Thomas McCarthy movie about the investigative team at the Boston Globe which broke the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2002, reporting for which the paper ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. The subject matter is difficult to hear, but the cast and production team …

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