Journolist Will Be Shut Down

Gotta love when supposedly private conversations become public.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/on_journolist_and_dave_weigel.html

 

Journalists or even Journolists should never bitch about private things becoming public. Never.

 

Isn't that the message board where smug self-important beltway reporters worked to develop the common wisdom of the day? Big loss.

 

As with ACORN, it will re-emerge soon enough with a new name and slightly lower profile.

 

En masse, the comments are merely among the best online reading, ever.

 

God, Klein is terrible.

 

I never heard of the fucking place.

Perhaps the worst way to go ever.

 

Interview with Dave Weigel (who's leaked emails caused Journolist to be shut down):

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDY5NDY0YzRlZTJmODYzMmFlMDU2NjE0MTkxMzgwYWM=

And, sportsguydave's favorite media personality offers $100,000 to anyone who will leak him the entire Journolist archive:

http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/06/29/reward-100000-for-full-journolist-archive-source-fully-protected/?preview=true&preview_id=86962&preview_nonce=ec524375b1

 

You have to be a real scumbag to sell that to Breitbart, a journalistic leech who celebrates the demise of traditional media while using it to build his "empire."

 

So, do you think someone will do it?

$100,000 is a lot of money. I'll bet it's a whole lot of money to some of the people on the list.

And there's the whole, "someone else will do it if I don't" argument.

Now, I'm not sure how it worked. Would any long term member who saved his emails have an entire archive to sell?

I thought that part of the reason that it was shut down was so that it wouldn't be able to be searched through.

Although I suppose that whoever leaked the info to the Daily Caller has the whole archive because they clearly searched though it to find Weigel's posts to it.

 

Piotr

check your thread title

Didn't you mean to write

"Journolist Will Be Shot Down" and and "Shut Down"