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Mayhill Fowler & Huffington Post, redux

Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 04:11:58 PM PDT

No, I have nothing to say about anything that fraud has written since I make a point of not reading her.  Why read something that you know is short on facts, long on fabrication, and devoid of journalistic ethics?
But there's a good post over on TPM by another "citizen-journalist" who writes for Off the Bus on Huffington Post.  She tears into Mayhill Fowler's ethics.  Deanie Mills is much kinder -- doesn't even mention Fowler's name -- than I would be.  But she (I think Deanie is a she?) does a good job of thoroughly criticizing Fowler's behavior and ethics.

Mills then excuses Huffington Post for refusing to publish her piece on this  -- had to write it as a reader post on TPM, which is why I'm promoting her post here.  I want lots of folks to read it.  Maybe we should copy it and inundate Jay Rosen and the Huffington Post with emails containing the whole post.  I think it's very telling that Huffington Post won't print any criticism of themselves even from one of their own writers.

Here's the link to Deanie Mills' post at TPM:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com...

I've written 2 diaries before this on the foulness of Fowler.  I also emailed Huffington Post and Jay Rosen (the person in charge of Off the Bus, who claims he's a journalist and defends Fowler).  I never received even a courtesy ("your opinion is important to us... blah blah blah") reply.
A worthy and respected DailyKos diarist (Rieux) just wrote about meeting Fowler at the Minnesota Xcel Center in Minneapolis, and described her as being "very nice to me."  I'm glad she's a nice person, in person -- but she's not a nice person, as far as I'm concerned.  I don't like unethical people, no matter how pleasant they are to me.

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