Ann Coulter should have made news this week.
By making it last week, she actually helped obscure a real news story when a state audit revealed that the University of California had a hidden surplus of $175 million.
More on that, but first the publicity hog, Coulter.
Coulter actually should have been speaking this week at the University of California (UC) as part of a compromise to enable her to exercise her free speech rights at a time and place when the university could secure her safety.
Coulter declined and chose instead to make a free speech ruckus in the news, which was always her aim in the first place.
Ordinarily, a Coulter speaking engagement would have had all the news value of a garden club talk — even at $20,000 a pop.
However, add to it the appearance that her rights had been besmirched, and you have evolved a “fake news” event into something coverable by the Washington Post and others. It is a news story, but one where it helps to see through the lines.
