Chekhov's Mistress
It Was One Thing…
when Lee Siegel got fired from The New Republic for anonymously praising himself in the comments to his TNR blog. I took it as a step backward for the medium. But let me say this as eloquently as I can: this guy is a fucking asshole. He brushes off his self-aggrandizing as “misplaced satire” and blames his ethical failure, like a teenager who steals because his friends do, on the “blogosphere.”
From Deborah Solomon’s NY Times piece:
But beyond the breach of your journalistic compact, don’t you think it’s intellectually lame to express one’s opinions anonymously?
I do indeed. Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.
That answer is what’s intellectually lame. I guess I need to brush this off. Another day, another liar pumping the publicity machine at everyone else’s expense.
comments
amen. i read this ny times piece and wanted to gag. how pathetic.
– dawn (10/01 at 09:00 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 19, 2006
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