Media Matters is worked up that the New York Times bestseller list charts Laura Ingraham’s THE OBAMA DIARIES as nonfiction “even though it is clearly a fictional creation.” But Sam Tanenhaus uses the MILLIE’S BOOK defense, and says “there seems to be a history on the best-seller list that if a book deals in a direct way with politics and campaigns or current events then it has been historically listed as non-fiction.” He adds, “we do see books of this nature and you do not dignify them by calling them fiction. In the end, it is a kind of political […]
