21st January 2005

Hugh Hewitt Fires Back!

posted in Blogging Community News, High Noise - Low Signal |

There’s a blogger named Hugh Hewitt who has an ax to grind.  The webcred conference didn’t invite any faith based bloggers.  I think they should have invited somebody who maintains a teardrop trailer wiki, but NOOO… so much for sensitivity to design, sensitivity to cultural nuance.  Intolerant, that’s what I call it.  But enough about me.  Let’s talk about Hugh.

Ed Cone shared portions of an email exchange he had had with this right-wing guy, and Hewitt called it unethical.  Of course nobody would have known it was Hewitt if he hadn’t outed himself.  Cone ethically provided his correspondent with anonymity. 

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  1. 1 On January 21st, 2024, Shelley said:

    hewitt was right — it was inappropriate of Cone to publish material from a private communication, assigning it to ‘anonymous’ or not.

    Odd behavior for a man attending a conference on ‘ethics’.

  2. 2 On January 21st, 2024, fp said:

    That seems to be the blog-world conventional wisdom for sure. I’ve seen no one contradict it. But my BS detector says there is another side to the argument. Absent a request for (or an assurance of) both confidentiality and off-the-record-ness, why shouldn’t I be allowed to share the ideas and material that comes out of a correspondence thread that I initiated, particularly one as innocuous as the Hewitt/Cone exchange? I ask that particularly in the context of guarding the correspondent’s privacy. Common sense tells me there’s no harm done.

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