As a blogger, I also immediately post corrections or retractions if someone points out a mistake or misstatement. I don’t think it’s about journalistic standards per se. It’s about being a decent, ethical human being.
—That fucktard with whom I had some fun the other day (he did eventually grasp the humour of suggesting the phrase ‘intellectual property is theft’ was stolen, though not before making a babyconservative ass of himself), brandishing his integrity in an email to the Washington Post.
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