The Role of the Delete Key in Blog
s a blog still a blog if someone else edits it? A recent policy change at The Sacramento Bee has raised questions about whether taking an editor’s pen to a Web log before it is published detracts from very nature of Web logs, or “blogs,” as the online diaries are called.Huh. Well, my initial thought is that if he’s blogging for the paper, then the paper has every right to enforce its editorial oversight. I’ll dwell on this and speak up if I find anything else to really talk about…Lurking uncertainty about what standards should be applied to Web logs written by journalists bubbled to the surface last week after The Bee’s ombudsman made public a recent decision by editors to screen Web log entries of Daniel Weintraub, one of the newspaper’s leading columnists, before they are posted on The Bee’s Web site.
Other bloggers weighed in, many sharply criticizing the new regulations that the editors imposed on Mr. Weintraub’s popular “California Insider” blog, widely considered required reading for recall election news.
For much of the time since he started the online journal in April, Mr. Weintraub had been allowed to update the blog with new comments without editing. Now, before Mr. Weintraub posts an item on his online journal, which includes instant political commentary and news tips, it must be reviewed by an editor.
Toddler ‘doing well’ after nearly 3 weeks alone
After spending nearly three weeks alone and surviving on raw pasta, mustard and ketchup, a 2-year-old Jacksonville, Florida, girl was in good spirits Tuesday morning at a hospital, officials told CNN.Damn, that’s a smart kid. My dumb 2 year old ass would have been eating the couch or something. How the hell can you go to jail and forget to mention your 2 year old sitting in the apartment?“The child is doing well,” said David Foreman, a spokesman for Wolfson Children’s Hospital, where the toddler was brought for treatment. “She was sitting up this morning, talking and laughing with the nurses.”
Officer Ken Jefferson, spokesman for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, said the little girl was brought to the hospital Monday, suffering from malnutrition, after an officer responded to a call from the child’s father, Ogden Lee.
Lee, 33, was at the apartment of his estranged wife, 22-year-old Dakeysha Lee, who has been incarcerated since September 10. He told the responding officer that the apartment manager had let him into the apartment, where he found his daughter.
“The child basically survived on raw pasta, mustard, ketchup,” Jefferson said.
