by Divemistress of the Dark on 01 Jun 2007 13:19
Well, the snafu is this: Making posts read-only for members would still not guarantee that people signing up for the forum are not journalists. There'd really be no way for Gio and company to know.
The real problem is that this "journalist" obviously doesn't get Stewart's sense of humor...or does, and doesn't care, because he's found a "scoop."
I think Dean Goodman owes us an explanation, and owes Stewart an apology. His comments were obviously not given on the record. What's worse is that this story is now on the Reuters wire service, being spread across the planet as we speak...I've been digging for an email address so some of us could express our displeasure to Mr. Goodman directly, but without much luck.
Perhaps we could ask Gio to come up with a policy for folks taking things from the forum without permission. I notice this Goodman didn't even link to Stewart's site, just mentioned it.
On Google - site:stewartcopeland.net "your keyword here" - thanks DM!!