{"id":188968,"date":"2010-06-27T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/27\/i-agree\/"},"modified":"2010-06-27T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T16:53:00","slug":"i-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/06\/27\/i-agree\/","title":{"rendered":"I Agree"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to  handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on  fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those of you whodon&#8217;t know, the preceedings was written by Dave Weigel on the private (and <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/06\/on_journolist_and_dave_weigel.html\">now shuttered<\/a>) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">JournOlist<\/span> listserv, and was subsequently leaked to right wing bloggers, leading to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0610\/39025.html\">his resignation from his position at the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/a> as their blogger covering the right wing movement.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that a <a href=\"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/25\/the-shame-of-journolist\/\">number of prominent conservatives have come to his defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot speak to the ethics of leaking information from a private listserv, after all we see a lot of leaked private emails when the media covers other industries, but I think that whoever did this was a dick, though they might be an ethical dick.<sup>*<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, it all that the Washington, DC  professional blogosphere is talking about right now, to which my response is to go back to covering the damn news.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you read the <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ombudsman-blog\/2010\/06\/blogger_loses_job_post_loses_s.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> Ombudsman&#8217;s article on this<\/a>, which is basically a plea to conservatives to like them, you will understand why you should not subscribe to the paper.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Come to think of it, &#8220;Ethical Dick&#8221; is a should be a synonym for &#8220;good reporter.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire. For those of you whodon&#8217;t know, the preceedings was written by Dave Weigel on the private (and now shuttered) JournOlist listserv, and was subsequently leaked to right wing bloggers, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,1129,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}