{"id":10848,"date":"2008-01-27T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2008-01-27T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T13:24:30","slug":"lee-siegel-interviewed-at-wsj-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"Lee Siegel Interviewed at WSJ [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Siegel, 50 years old, made headlines several years ago when he was a staff writer at New Republic<\/a>. As he describes in his introduction, anonymous readers were using the Talkback section of a culture blog he wrote to launch vile, over-the-top attacks upon him. Mr. Siegel then created his own pseudonym, and used it to attack his enemies and praise himself. He says that he was goaded into action by the publication’s editors, who ignored their own rules regarding obscenity in favor of “open discussion.” For his efforts, Mr. Siegel was briefly suspended. The author was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, boy:<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal:<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0What prompted this book?
\nLee Siegel:<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0People are going to say that I wrote the book in the spirit of anger. It’s not true. It’s the most even-tempered thing I’ve ever written. In 2005 I told the L.A. Times that the blogosphere was lowering culture. I’ve wanted to write this book for a long time. I’m speaking out against thuggish anonymity.
\nWSJ:<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0You complain about the use of anonymous attacks on the Web, but you used a pseudonym yourself. Any regrets?
\nMr. Siegel:<\/strong>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0No, I’d do it again. I did it as a protest, to give these people a taste of their own medicine.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wha? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Huh? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0Poor Beauchamp. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0He was not the worst.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. Siegel, 50 years old, made headlines several years ago when he was a staff writer at New Republic. As he describes in his introduction, anonymous readers were using the Talkback section of a culture blog he wrote to launch vile, over-the-top attacks upon him. Mr. Siegel then created his own pseudonym, and used it to attack his enemies and praise himself. He says that he was goaded into action<\/p>\n

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