Any bets on who will be the first capital-J to be fired because of something she or he blogs?

The scenario is easy to predict in its general shape: A journalist writes something in her blog that draws letters to the editor that say: “How can we trust this person to report the news fairly when we know that she holds such outrageous, insensitive, prejudiced beliefs? If she’s a bigot on the Internet, how can we trust her not to be a bigot in your newspaper?” The journalist refuses to retract. The newspaper fires her.

Unfortunately, the early adopters of bloggery among capital-J’s, who are some of my favorite and most respected bloggers, are the best candidates because the fact that they were early adopters indicates that they are unafraid of speaking their minds. Ulp.

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