Friday, July 1, 2011

We Said it first ... Here

Finally it seems the truth may be coming out in the DSK case. How quickly our media is out to judge instead of just reporting ... This is an article from the Huffington Post


STEVE CLEMONS: Strauss-Kahn and the Age of Reputation

"I realize given the proliferation of commentary about Strauss-Kahn's alleged womanizing and the bandwaggoning criticism of him that built after his arrest that he is perhaps a flawed and tragic figure. 

But the problem of reputation wrecked still stands whether the target is warm and likeable or a brilliant storm, as I see Strauss-Kahn, and that lesson is a bad one for people on the internet, who are becoming commentators and writers, to learn.  They see the successful effects of attack, whether based in truth and credibility or not, and sense that the downsides of backlash and consequence to an accuser's or scandalmongerer's credibility are not serious."

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