Captain’s Blog, Stardate: 3/3/08 – Mar. 3, 2008
by Tom on March 4, 2008
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This is exactly why I write this blog with my own name and my own contact information on it. If you can’t say it and put your name behind it, don’t say it at all……
Captain’s Blog, Stardate: 3/3/08 – Mar. 3, 2008
DEATH AND THE INTERNET: You have probably read about the suicide last week of Paul Tilley, the creative director of DDB Chicago. And that some say anonymous and mean-spirited comments on two ad industry blogs may have contributed to his death. My take? I find the whole business deplorable. As a minor public face in the media world I’ve been subjected to these kind of attacks by those who hide behind the cloak of the pseudonym. While at CNN, one blogger suggested that my chin never ended and my neck never began. (Well that’s actually true!) Another suggested I gained weight (Ah TV! There were a few nice ones too. A few…) While at Fortune, the then-anonymous Fake Steve postulated: Hasn’t Fortune Become More Stupid Now That Andy Serwer Has Become Editor? (Of course now I know where this Red Sox fan lives – or at least works.) Sure these little jibs are merely nicks and cuts that come with job. I mean who cares, right? Can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen (or soup, Teehee.) Comes with the territory stuff. Well, I can tell you they still sting a little and they are still cowardly. And for someone who has demons and other stuff rumbling around in their head they might even be dangerous. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t blog critically (Lord knows!). But just be woman enuff or man enuff to put your dang name on your screed! I always do!……It kinda reminds me of an incident years ago. I had blogged that I hated (football coach) Lou Holtz. Someone wrote in to tell me that “hate” is a pretty strong word. He was right. I don’t hate Lou Holtz at all. Fact is words can be powerful medicine…..(Now I do ‘hate’ being served a dish at a fancy restaurant with venison foam, but that’s another story…).
