Comments on: The Value of a Super Villain

By: Nick Grossman

Nick Grossman — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:33:00 +0000

What a great frame for approaching things. Love it.

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By: Andrew Whitacre

Andrew Whitacre — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:05:00 +0000

Turns out, readers can be their own worst super villain, for as we learned today, Anonymous created a replica of the Times online Opinion page and had “Bill Keller” express complete, rather than his actual conflicted, support of WikiLeaks: http://www.opinion-nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/keller-a-post-postscript.html They followed it with a similar hoax statement from PayPal: http://www.thepaypalblog.co/2012/07/statement-on-nytimes.html

Some really important journalism ethics people fell for it, including our friend Dan Gillmor and the more prominent Glen Greenwald.

Now, there certainly was some cleverness: the Keller piece lifted text Keller had actually written in the past. But are we really still at the point that “opinion-nytimes.com” and “thepaypalblog.co” don’t give it away?

By: Matt Mireles

Matt Mireles — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:03:00 +0000

Dan, if you really really want to destroy a newspaper, the formula is very complex and top secret but I’ll share it with you just this once. You ready? Here it is:

Retain the current management team. Do business as usual. Repeat.

Ok Dan, there you have it. Now go forth to plunder and destroy.