Cut and paste job from Warren Kinsella's blog:
IS THE NATIONAL POST LYING TO ITS READERS?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 10:55 PM
The newspaper, I saw today, publishes columns by "Raphael Alexander." They may have in fact done so for a while (I barely read the paper when I wrote for it, and don't do so at all, now.) The "Alexander" columns are the usual stuff - regurgitated Harper PMO talking points, anti-Ignatieff screeds, blah blah blah. Yawn.Thing is, "Raphael Alexander" is not this columnist's real name. Dawg's asked the guy straight out, too.
Here's the exchange, from a few weeks ago:
Dr.Dawg Says: March 1, 2009 at 4:50 pm Is “Raphael Alexander” your real name? Just curious. Raphael Alexander Says: March 1, 2009 at 9:21 pm Define what real name means... "Raphael" then goes on to play some parsing games about what's on his birth certificate, what's real, what isn't, etc. But he confirms that at least part of his Post handle is bullshit.So, does the Post willingly publish untruths, or has it simply been hoodwinked? Good question.Let's think about that.
WFDS
Why are you re-posting Warren's article? You've added nothing to it of your own whatsoever. Just to add more of your "stuff" to the blogrolls? Nuts.
ReplyDeletePenlan.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your comment.
Coz I thought it was interesting and felt it could stand quite nicely on its own.
By the way, what is a blogroll?
WFDS
I actually used "blogroll" in the wrong context. A blogroll is a list of bloggers that a blogger, or a blog aggregate, has on their homepage.
ReplyDeleteI should have said you are just "filling up" the main page of an aggregate blog. Morton does the same thing, post after post, & pushing other more thoughtful posts off the aggregates page.
Penlan.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your second comment.
What is an aggregate blog? How do I go there?
And I didn't know there were rules per se to this blog thing; where are they? I want to play correctly.
Thank you.
WFDS
You are already on 3 aggregates - Liblogs, LiberalsONLINE, & Progressive Bloggers. An aggregate is a group of different bloggers under one site.
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