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"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Patterico catches LA Times columnist using mulitple IDs
This is just incredible. I’d be doing it an injustice if I copied and pasted small snippets of what was said there regarding the multiple IDs that Patterico has caught LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik using.
Having multiple IDs in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing, but if you’re using them to defend and prop up one of your other IDs, well – it’s a problem.
Hiltzik’s response is an absolutely laughable strawman, as he makes the argument about anonymity on the Internet in and of itself – which, as you’ll clearly see from Patterico’s smackdown, the issue is not anonymity it’s the use of multiple anonymous IDs to defend your other IDs. Make sure to check out the comments section to Hiltzik’s post, too. No one is buying what he’s selling.
Update 10:50 PM: Via the LATimes blog:
Notice from the Editors
The Times has suspended Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State blog on latimes.com. Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the paper’s website, and on other websites, under names other than his own. That is a violation of The Times ethics guidelines, which requires editors and reporters to identify themselves when dealing with the public. The policy applies to both the print and online editions of the newspaper. The Times is investigating the postings.
I’m with Patterico, who writes:
I hope that this is not the end of the paper’s experiment in using the Internet to interact with its readers. It is a noble experiment, and I want to see it continue.
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This guy is just a capitalist using the tool of self-promotion. It’s not surprising that he is also dishonest. Just one more criminal. Peace
The Blog did it…!
LATimes
This is one online behavior I absolutely detest, the use of sock puppets to generate “support” for your position. In the online world, it’s hard enough to know who you’re “talking” with, annonimity has it good and bad points. The free and honest exchange of ideas is not served by lying and multiple personality disorders. Doing things like this is a sure sign of a person with little or no confidence or self esteem. No confidence in themselves, and no confidence in their positions/opinions (which is telling, many leftists seem to have this problem).
In forensics, there are software applications that performe something called stylometry. They are used in many cyberstalking cases and such. They analyze a person’s writing wrt things like grammar, misspellings, punctuation, number of words per sentence, etc. Given a large enough dataset, they can be remarkably accurate.
I’ve often thought it’d be interesting to run them on a lot of the comments sections online.
I buy it. I thikn anonymity means that: anonymity. It could be anyone behind that comment.
The Los Angeles Times may have simply suspended Mr Hiltzik’s blog for the moment, but, in the end, he has to go; the man has just Jayson Blaired himself. He destroyed his credibility, in a way which has embarassed his employer. Were I the editor of the Times, Mr Hiltzik would have been suspended pending dismissal.
What a dumbass. I blog, I work for a newspaper. Rules should be — no, have to be — the same
Maybe I should forward LAT my resume … naw, weather is too perfect in LA
I commented on this in the open thread yesterday. I am not happy Hiltzik used my name in a slam of Hugh Hewitt by one of his sock puppets.
This behavior is what I have come to expect from small minded liberals both within the MSM and on the Internet. It just highlights a basic dishonesty in the Liberal personality.
Again andrew demonstrates his willingness to back any wrongdoing by another leftie. You have no ethics, man.
steve(FN) gets his dig in at capitalism, but fails to recognize that Hiltzik isn’t a supporter of capitalism, but just a liar employed by the LATimes.
I refused to take the LATimes when I lived in Orange County. They are a dishonest paper from top to bottom. That paper was so full of crap that I couldn’t use it as a catbox liner. The cats thought the box was full and refused to use it with the LATimes as the liner.
Michael Hiltzik Sounds like a little punk. My guess is he is part of the mainstream media.