Sunday, July 17, 2005

Wanker of the Day

Helaine Olen.

Read this too, of course.

One nice thing about blogs is when journalists write shit pieces on you, you have a forum to strike back.

They hate that.


...There are an infinite number of issues raised by this which are worthy of discussion, but one of them is addressed perfectly by a commenter at pandagon:

There's definitely some class issues going on when an employee writing about her employer in a blog [[and, let me add, unnamed and identified by that employee -a.]] is enough to get her fired, but an employer writing about her employee in the New York Times is just journalism.