LINK: Defending Ronée
My official statement on the whole Ronée + Soma/Brownstein affair went up on PCS earlier this week, and reaction so far has been mostly what I’d hoped: muted and, I daresay, somewhat chastened. Official Statement on “What A Girl Wants” Controversy Based on my own internal investigation of the information Ms. Bourgeois had available before
LINK: It’s Good to Have Influential Friends
When the wagons start circling, they don’t waste any time in firing up the Howitzer, do they? Heidi MacDonald, a highly respected blogger who’s known Charles Brownstein since he was 15 years old, has now set her sights on Buzzscope and me: The buzz on BUZZSCOPE Folks, I think it’s time to cut Buzzscope loose.
COMMENT: More on Taki Soma
x-posted from NEWSarama’s ANALYZING THE ALLEGED MID OHIO ASSAULT: Originally Posted by GODDARD But to just make a few small points; the majority of Taki’s reluctance to name Brownstien came from her reluctance to harm the CBLDF’s reputation, a group that she has nothing but respect and appreciation for. While she knew that they were
LINK: TCJ Breaks Taki Soma Story
Sex Scandal Involving CBLDF’s Charles Brownstein Leads to Women’s Empowerment Fund Some the Journal spoke with referred to the multiple perspectives on the events of the evening in question as a kind of Rashomon scenario, but in fact, the accounts the Journal has heard are much more compatible with one another than they are divergent.
COMMENT: Forest, Trees and Taki Soma
Things that are pissing me off right about now: 1) Tom Spurgeon’s unnecessarily snarky and ill-informed commentary yesterday, which includes an ill-timed reference to old rumors about Friends of Lulu, and barely a cursory mention of the actual situation which precipitated the creation of the Empowerment Fund. 2) Heidi MacDonald’s total lack of reference to
LINK: Sexual Assault Follow-up
Ronée Garcia Bourgeois follows up on her story from a few months back about a sexual assault at a comics convention that led to some serious behind-the-scenes dustups that found us fighting off complaints of libel from one innocent bystander; the guilty successfully hiding behind a ill-conceived bigger (but in actuality, significantly smaller) picture; and