SOCK PUPPETRY AT THE NEW REPUBLIC; NJ GOP SENATE CANDIDATE ACCUSED OF SOCK PUPPETRY
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Senior Editor of The New Republic Fired for Anonymous Blog Attack Violating TNR's Blog Ethics
"A senior editor of The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers as "bloggofascists" who criticized his posts.
"Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a "sock puppet," or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the comment section of the blog...."
NYTimes, 9-5-06. Click on the link below for the full article
9-20 Thomas Kean, Jr. NJ Republican candidate for U.S. Senate accused of sock puppet attack against Dem opponent U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. Kean workers posted negative comments on liberal website..[Article linked below.]
Some people think our president is Cheney's sockpuppet!
A SENIOR EDITOR OF THE NEW REPUBLIC SUSPENDED FOR ANONYMOUS ATTACK ON A CRITIC
Lee Siegel
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- Sock puppets a Weblog NO-NO.
NYTimes article by Tom Zeller, Jr. "Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor of Internet governance at Oxford and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law school, suggested that the outing of Sprezzatura and Mr. Siegel's swi - Sock puppets a Weblog NO-NO.
NYTimes article by Tom Zeller, Jr. "Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor of Internet governance at Oxford and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law school, suggested that the outing of Sprezzatura and Mr. Siegel's swi
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"Curvature of the Spine" by Slate's Jack Shafer pans "The Spine" and takes a few shots at Marty Peretz.
Thomas Kean, Jr. GOP Senate Candidate Accused of Sock Puppetry
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