Slate magazine dipped its toes in the media gutter this morning when it ran a piece looking at Rudy Giuliani’s 17-year-old daughter’s Facebook profile. The limited news value of splashing a 17-year old high school student’s picture and profile across the pages of a major Web site is served, according to Slate, because Caroline’s profile said that she belonged to the Facebook group “Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack).”
The reporter says that “According to her profile, she withdrew from the Obama group at 6 a.m. Monday, after Slate sent her an inquiry about it.”
Now, there’s a certain expectation of public exposure if you post a profile to a social networking site and fail to “lock” it, meaning that you’re leaving it open for viewing to anyone who chances across it—but for Slate to run a silly little item about it, and expose a 17 year-old to public ridicule like this is more than unnecessary. Some might even call it tasteless.
Paul McLeary Wrote
Now, there's a certain expectation of public exposure if you post a profile to a social networking site and fail to "lock" it, meaning that you're leaving it open for viewing to anyone who chances across it--but for Slate to run a silly little item about it, and expose a 17 year-old to public ridicule like this is more than unnecessary. Some might even call it tasteless.
padikiller comes to praise McLeary, not bury him
Sure enough...
This kind of reprehensible crapola is certainly not a "blockbuster" story like the preelection revelation of certain GOP senator's "jewishness" was... Huh Mr. McLeary?...
Mr. McLeary has a selective tolerance for such yellow journalism in politics...
Word to the wise.... Wait till election day before judging Mr. McLeary's ethical boundaries...
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on Mon 6 Aug 2007 at 10:17 PM
I missed this gem. Another stalking, Padi? Now McLeary's left wing bias is showing because he's supporting not harrassing the weakest Republican candidate's daughter in an effort to get a Democrat elected. Insane.
God, I can't sleep worrying about how unfairly George Allen was treated. I think he created a conspiracy against himself when he used the word "macaca" two weeks before the incident you cite. He obviously was trying to ruin his own campaign. I'm as obsessed about it as you are—maybe even more.
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on Tue 14 Aug 2007 at 06:36 PM