So, are you a Mod or a Rocker?
Neither. I'm a Mocker.
Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:06 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
A senior editor at the New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts.
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FWIW.
http://www.tnr.com/
They do eat their own, you know.
Snicker
Is anyone else getting REALLY sick of the term BLOGGING? All it means is someone who thinks his/her opinion is SO IMPORTANT, they MUST put it in writing.
Another one?
The comments sound kind of mild compared with some of the replies I've received from journalists whose e-mail addresses were published at the end of their insanely leftist articles in the newspaper. The women are the most vicious--and spell the very worst too.
Well, it is cooler than "Dear Diary," don'cha know ;-)
But a quick question about the etymology -- is it 'blogging (as in weblogging), meaning that it would have to appear on the World Wide Web, or is it b-logging? (For you old Apple II geeks out there, "brun" was "binary run" as opposed to just "run," for example. I don't think I ever quite grasped the difference although there was one. If this is the etymology then a blog would have to on some level be binary (machine-readable).
"Siegel is brave, brilliant and wittier than Stewart will ever be. Take that, you bunch of immature, abusive sheep."
If he does say so himself.
IIRC, there was one of them here today...
Who?
The New Republic, with its shameful history and shameful present, is certainly a place where I like to see this kind of trouble occur. With some exceptions, the TNR crew and product are nasty, not just wrong.
That said, I fail to see why it's necessarily a sin for a bloggger to trash posters who offend him. Doesn't it depend on how provoked he was, and how far he went? Seems to make this can make a blog better, not worse.
--If you can't stand the heat, get out of the blogging!
And get a real life.
Must be an over site.
I think it is an overplayed term too.
I heard them mentioning something about New Republic on FNC, but I did not pay any attention to it
"That said, I fail to see why it's necessarily a sin for a bloggger to trash posters who offend him. Doesn't it depend on how provoked he was, and how far he went? Seems to make this can make a blog better, not worse."
He wasn't using his real name; he invented IDs and replied to criticisms of his writing via use of his sock puppets, which is a definate no-no in the blogging world.
"The women are the most vicious..."
I've worked in retail for about the last two years--let me assure you, this phenomenon is not limited to the web.
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