{"id":3580,"date":"2004-09-01T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T02:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/09\/01\/sethf-and-a-gripe-with-greplaw\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T22:57:26","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T02:57:26","slug":"sethf-and-a-gripe-with-greplaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2004\/09\/01\/sethf-and-a-gripe-with-greplaw\/","title":{"rendered":"SethF, and a Gripe with Greplaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See Peter Junger’s letter<\/A> for details on the after the fact editing of Seth Finkelstein’s<\/A> Greplaw interview<\/A>.<\/P>
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This concerns me on a number of levels.  On a journalistic level, I think the edits are rather unbecoming of Greplaw. By inserting Mr. Godwin’s words into the middle of the interview, Greplaw reframes Seth’s words, creating false implications about what he actually said. Greplaw’s paraphrasing of Godwin, rather than directly quoting him, enhances this effect, for the implication about Seth’s words appears to come from Greplaw itself. Seth did not sign up for a point-counterpoint with his critics; in the context of an interview with a single person, these methods seem rather inappropriate. To go back and make these edits after the original posting seems even worse. If anything, Greplaw should have allowed Godwin to post a separate,<\/EM> follow-up response, directly quoting him, while allowing Seth to respond if necessary.<\/P>
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I’d be interested in hearing Greplaw’s side of things.  Perhaps there’s something I’m missing.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See Peter Junger’s letter for details on the after the fact editing of Seth Finkelstein’s Greplaw interview. This concerns me on a number of levels.  On a journalistic level, I think the edits are rather unbecoming of Greplaw. By inserting Mr. Godwin’s words into the middle of the interview, Greplaw reframes Seth’s words, creating false implications about what he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-ideas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}