Did you see the piece that Taibbi wrote? http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/09/28/in-defense-of-zero-hedge/  

 

 

Well, I'll have a chance to try out the idea over the next few days as the piece goes up on True/Slant and HuffPo, so we might be able to see if there's anything worth discussing in the book here. Plus, I probably didn't explain very well what it is that I mean; I was going to tie in the theme of pundits and their sort of invincibility to what we sometimes see with bloggers and their readers going after one of them. Sort of a response to the Lee Siegel thing in which he was attacked by blog swarms, started sockpuppeting in his own defense, was caught and fired by The New Republic, and then wrote a book about how everyone was mean to him (although supposedly being an examination of the blogosphere and what it means for discourse). It might merit a brief discussion, at the very least, towards the end of the book when I try to tie everything together and propose a solution.