We're LIARS!

Thanks to Ali Baba for dropping me a note on the mistruths dispensed by NU's brilliant profs, notably Jack Levin, who was quoted frequently on the sniper matter. MSNBC quotes him.

Even after the suspects turned out not to be an angry man in a white van, but two black men in a blue Chevy, a host of profilers, lawyers and “security experts” remained shameless. “My predictions were not that close,” Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University, told the New York Times. “But the average American was hungry for information. And when there isn’t real news, people make up their own. People wanted a story of who this guy was. What we did, by providing it, comforted them.”

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