Curious - what's the justification for newspapers publishing stories without the writer's name, simply referring to them as "by a staff writer"? It seems to be increasingly common, particularly when the paper is going for a smear and no-one really wants to put their name to it. I'd have thought accountability requires someone to put their name to their own words.
Why is this considered acceptable?
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Pretending To Be Me
Bizarrely enough, there are a few sad people out there on the intertubes pretending to be me - commenting on other blogs as "MrLefty" or "Jeremy Sear" (using the same image of Blackadder), copying my posts into new blogs (or trying to steal my actual ones) but slightly changing the text to invert its meaning, and generally being obnoxious in an attempt to sully my good name (or pseudonym).
So if you see something purporting to be from me that seems to be completely opposite to what I argue here (for example, if I suddenly start calling for the incarceration of asylum seekers who arrive by boat or compulsory gay marriage and I'm not being sarcastic) - then it's not me. It's one of the trolls. Please delete the spiteful hack's drivel.
So if you see something purporting to be from me that seems to be completely opposite to what I argue here (for example, if I suddenly start calling for the incarceration of asylum seekers who arrive by boat or compulsory gay marriage and I'm not being sarcastic) - then it's not me. It's one of the trolls. Please delete the spiteful hack's drivel.