Arianna Dragged Through the Blog
Arianna Huffington has caved in her fight with George Clooney, after Arianna compiled a bunch of quotes Clooney gave at various times, cobbled them together, posted the result on her website and claimed that Clooney had blogged for
the Huffington Post.
I'm tempted to say that this is a story about a new kind of journalism ethics, having to do with the rules of the blogosphere, but that wouldn't really be true...every journalist knows that you can't press together public statements like plywood and call them a quote.
I will say, however, that it's probably not a good idea to mess with one of the most powerful guys in Hollywood who once led a boycott of tabloid tv shows and just made
a film about a heroic journalist.....
