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I've been tracking the discussion on the outing of Greg Jericho as author of the Grog's Gamut blog by The Australian journalist James Massola.
In the noise of #Groggate, don't forget those silenced
Outing an amateur « Dave from Albury's Weblog
The decision to publish the name and workplace of the blogger Grog, author of Grog’s Gamut , by The Australian’s James Massola has been dominating not just conversation on twitter and on many Australian blogs, but has continued to generate pageviews for the national broadsheet. There’s a lot of back and forth about the ethics of unmasking an anonymous blogger, but I think a lot of it is talking at cross purposes because most of the journalists genuinely do not understand why a blogger would use a pseudonym and therefore begin with the attitude that there is something that needs to be uncovered.
Media can reveal that high-profile blogger Grog's Gamut is actually Greg Jericho, a public servant who spends his days working in the film section of the former Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts.
Controversial political blogger unmasked as a federal public servant | The Australian
Anonymous rants have some losing faith in social media sites | The Australian
IS it understandable for politicians not to want to engage on social media sites if what they get there includes a lot of anonymous abuse? Or should they, as truncated Twitter parlance would have it, HTFU* and take the bad (trolls) with the good (voters who genuinely want to interact)?
By 10am today, hundreds of tweets had been sent under the #groggate hashtag, defending the federal public servant and his right to anonymity. And the blogger has written a passionate defence of his right to blog under a pseudonym. “Whatever you think of Massola's decision to out me (and it was certainly not my decision or preference), I will just say he has known who I was since last November.
