Pitchforks and Torches

There's a huge scandal raging in the Media conference right now on The WELL, having to do with a certain WELL user who's a professional media figure and is known to some audiences across the country for his on-air program. Evidently someone took some of his posts from the media conference and sent them to his producer, who made a stink and got him in trouble, and now there's a huge stink on The WELL about who the perp was. Apparently a similar thing happened with another longtime WELL user who happens to be a well-known regional media personality (I completely missed that scandal, don't even know when it happened), and the prevailing theory seems to be the same person must've done both deeds.

Meanwhile, the flame.ind conference, always poised for fresh witchhunts and false accusations, having found out about W.N.O.T.W. the same day as the media scandal erupted, put two and two together and came up with eleven: they're insinuating that the perp is yours truly. Sorry, boys and girls, I'm not the perp and I have no idea who is. But you go ahead and keep insinuating that I am, since it appears to make you feel better.

Update: the flamers are besides themselves at this point, one calling me "moron" for the above paragraph, evidently thinking I wrote it as a response directed to a specific posting made a little after 8am this morning in the flame conference. Not that it matters to them, but they're wrong, my "perp" comment was actually directed at an insinuation made last night, not this morning, in the same flame.ind conference. But there's no reasoning with this mob right now, though. They keep pounding the site, clicking on every single link (here, try this one, and be SURE to check out this one!) on the site, like the Eye of Sauron searching desperately for the One Ring.

Posted by brian at July 3, 2004 09:11 AM

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