Eric Turkewitz continues his interview with plaintiff’s counsel as well as an analysis of the Boston Globe coverage:
No matter what some might think of the comments Flea made, the punishment that the Globe sought to inflict upon him seems vastly disproportional to any sins he committed with his blog.
Related posts:
- Flea and the plaintiff’s attorney
- Dr. Flea speaks
- The demise of Flea, who live-blogged his medical malpractice trial
- More medical home analysis
- Analysis of Wyden’s health care plan
- Flea’s trial blogging catches a lawyer’s attention
- Avandia and meta-analysis
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The lawyer’s “coverage” seems rather one-sided. Why not call up Flea’s lawyer and get his/her point of view?
As for the point about journalism, I am from an area where a local newspaper has “embraced” blogging (getting some national recognition for it), but only in a fashion that best serves the status quo.
Bloggers who have challenged it have suffered some very hard knocks.
The “punishment” that the Boston Globe inflicted by featuring Flea’s story so prominently is really not so different from two Piedmont North Carolina newspapers that have completely buried/refused to tell mine.
O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us…
You might want to stop shaking that bonnet, Mary. You’re seriously creeping me out. Maybe this IS about you, in a way…as another object lesson of a blogger who is not helping their reputation with their online diary stylings.
I stopped worrying about my reputation about the time I got sued (ultimately unsuccessfully) for “libel” . . . because I told the truth to the government I served.
I’m in the blogosphere because a little over two years ago, a Greensboro NC newspaper editor jumped on the blogging bandwagon (to pump up those readership numbers) and gave people the impression it was an alternative way to get stories out there that might not otherwise get MSM attention. It’s not really worked out that way. For instance, I’m not a liberal Democrat (like most of the big shots running North Carolina – a good many of them crooked) and I don’t worship at the altar of John Edwards.
Several posts on my blog ought to be required reading for any of the doe-eyed newbies entering public service, or moving to rural areas to be the only Pediatrician (i.e. “Flea”) for mile and miles. It might save them some grief.
As I see it, I’ve got two choices. I can throw up my hands and walk away from medicine, or I can speak out. I’m in this blogging game to shake that bonnet . . . not to make anyone feel warm and fuzzy. I’m here to make you think. And if you’re “creeped-out”, it means you’re thinking;)
Every hit on my blog profile is a “win” against “the boys” who (almost ten years ago) threw me out of my own home town for saving a baby’s life . . . and who got away with it.
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