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Despicable non-journalism

My world is very complicated. I am in a profession (writing) where, for better or worse, some measure of success is given by how many people know who you are. And yet, I really am a very, very private person. I don't, frankly, like anybody up in my business, as they say. Read my work or don't, but leave me out of it. So it was with some measure of disgust and revulsion that I read Dee-Ann LeBlanc's Maureen O'Gara Strikes Again, in which she unceremoniously dumps her volunteer position at LinuxWorld Magazine because they pay O'Gara. Why? Because in their quest to discredit Groklaw's Pamela Jones, O'Gara published the most personal of personal details about her. To give you an idea, she published PJ's address and phone numbers, and that's not the most private of the information.

It's disgusting.

PJ is standing up to O'Gara. Good for her. Now she says that she's being warned that people are talking about her imminent "suicide", which is what apparently happened to someone else in this matter. She tells us unequivocably that if we hear about her suicide, it isn't.

No matter which stand you take on the SCO thing -- which is what is at the heart of the matter -- this is simply disgusting.

Technorati tags Linux | PamelaJones | MaureenOGara | SCO

Technorati tags: Linux | Sco | Pamela Jones | Maureen O'Gara |

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