Lee Siegel is smart. Ask him.
Smart indeed. These moves make it impossible to parody him.
I bet after a couple three drinks you could get The Stranger's older generation of writers to admit that they'd like this concrete wall back up too. Reinforced concrete, twenty feet high, with broken glass on top.
Bercovici noted that, in an appearance on The Daily Show to promote Against the Machine, Jon Stewart didn’t ask Siegel at all about how he created a sock puppet persona to defend himself against negative attacks
Not only that, but he used that sock puppet to bash Jon Stewart - and I'm certain Jon Stewart knew that, yet didn't probe him on it.
What a weirdo. You're right - he clearly yearns for a world where the public dialogue is unidirectional, with him on the talking side. It's oddly quaint.
i laughed, like everyone else, when he got busted with his sock puppet. i never would've believed he'd go on to write a book about how the internet is bad because it's full of anonymous meanies.
what a shameless asshole.
@4: At least his book about how evil the Internet is has only sold roughly 4,000 copies. That's small numbers, even in book terms.
This calls to mind the SLOG post yesterday about the author Deborah MacGillivray having negative reviews deleted from Amazon and writing intimidating replies to the posters of less than 4 star reviews. Is there a new trend in publishing to silence criticism and public discourse? If so it would make an interesting article.
SHUTUP INKWEARY
Go F*** Yourself inkweary!
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