Rob Smith wrote:
On 3/10/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
In these circumstances, where David is right in saying that they have never been done before, it is too easy to be knocked off track by a single unexpected issue like that of Essjay's credentials. We have to be careful not to attach too much unwarranted weight to these one-off incidents.
The Essjay affair can be summed up as: the guy was a victim of his own stupidity.
Absolutely!
Now how did that attract international mainstream media attention?
Sensation hungry sharks on a feeding frenzy. When they have nothing new to say they go around in circles repeating themselves. I'm surprised they didn't send off a cadre of paparazzi to Louisville waiting for Essjay to give them a juicy shot. Lucky for him that he didn't have Anna Nicole's chest. :-)
Ec