{"id":189091,"date":"2010-05-24T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/24\/apologies-to-declan-mccullagh\/"},"modified":"2010-05-24T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T21:08:00","slug":"apologies-to-declan-mccullagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/24\/apologies-to-declan-mccullagh\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies to Declan McCullagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/journalists-protecting-their-own.html\">earlier post<\/a>, regarding an article where a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be silly,&#8221; McLaughlin responds. &#8220;No one&#8217;s backed away from  anything. . . . Isn&#8217;t . . . the author of the article, an anti [net  neutrality] zealot?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I put 2 and 2 together, and got 5.  I said that it was clearly CNET reporter Declan McCullagh.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> Mr. McCullagh.<\/p>\n<p>It was someone else, and here is (my best guess) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1035_3-10430009-94.html\">his article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded as if was something that came from Mr. McCullagh, who is a somewhat-saner-than-Rand-Paul libertarian, but I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>I had an exchange with the author, Roger Parloff, who told me who the author was, and that he felt that naming the author would require space for a response, which would have crowded out other information in an article with a limited length.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the solution here is for online articles from dead tree publications, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Fortune Magazine<\/span> in this case, would be better served by providing links under such circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s bloggy, but I&#8217;ve always been a fan of hyperlinks, or their old school predecessor, the footnote.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I was wrong, and I apologize to my reader(s) and Mr. McCullagh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, regarding an article where a quote: &#8220;Don&#8217;t be silly,&#8221; McLaughlin responds. &#8220;No one&#8217;s backed away from anything. . . . Isn&#8217;t . . . the author of the article, an anti [net neutrality] zealot?&#8221; I put 2 and 2 together, and got 5. I said that it was clearly CNET reporter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1047,997,1129,985,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-corrections","category-internet","category-journalism","category-regulation","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189091"}],"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=189091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}