Comments on: IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE DEFINITION OF “JEW” IS

By: Rick DeMent

Rick DeMent — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I think you're ascribing a lot more influence to the old blogosphere then might be true. We are assuming that there wasn't some completely unrelated issue at work that we don't know about that caused the firing and in media that is a dodgy assumption. I'm not saying that's what I think happened, just that it's well within the realm of feasibility.

By: Internet Ronin

Internet Ronin — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

James: Meryl Yourish says that Easterbrook tells her that the TMQ column represents a huge chunk of his annual income, so it is not just a hobby.

BTW, I'm surprised to see Glenn Reynolds mentioned by some as being excessively critical. It seems to me that all he did was note who was saying what and where. I guess just a link from Instapundit is now supposed to mean wholesale endorsement. Do you think this is this some new rule of blogging?

FWIW, other than Easterbrooks unfortunate words themselves, I think the real damage was done by a Tim Rutten column in the L.A. Times, which probably would have been written even without all the hoopla in the blogosphere.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

IR,

Interesting. Since there were only a few TMQ columns a year, that would be surprising.

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