[stupac2]

Being wrong in public is bad, obviously. And I wouldn't want any errors that bespeak an obvious lack of ethics, competence, or ability. But fundamentally if you're going to write in public you're going to have to get over any stage fright you might have and say what you think.

Alternatively, you have to be prepared to deny to the death that you were ever actually wrong. Which seems to be an increasingly popular way to go about it these days among the talking-head pundit class. We can only hope it never infects the real journalists.

[stupac2]

Being wrong in public is bad, obviously. And I wouldn't want any errors that bespeak an obvious lack of ethics, competence, or ability. But fundamentally if you're going to write in public you're going to have to get over any stage fright you might have and say what you think.

Alternatively, you have to be prepared to deny to the death that you were ever actually wrong. Which seems to be an increasingly popular way to go about it these days among the talking-head pundit class. We can only hope it never infects the real journalists.