Hadn’t noticed this clown-on-the-box before.
I am not making this up. I am not manufacturing outrage here…Couple of points: I decided to be a journalist aged 10. Never wavered. At high school I wrote a mean review of the chorus and it caused a small riot in the newspaper office, but the principal refused to suspend me. He said it would violate the First Amendment.
When I joined the Wall Street Journal early in my career I was told “We never publish a mean, bashing comment about someone if it comes from an off the record anonymous source.” It’s just unfair and wrong. And when I was managing editor of Forbes one of the last cover stories I edited was also one of the best – on the malicious massed mob on the internet and how dangerous anonymity really is…
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