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In reply to the discussion: Leaked Emails Show Justice Clarence Thomas's Wife Pushing Travel Ban [View all]BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)21. I'm not following you, what am I missing?
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I was never on JournoList, and it has always sounded like an unworkable idea to mehow can you expect a bunch of reporters to keep all those discussions secret? (Blogger David Weigel, whose leaked JournoList e-mails led to his resignation at the Washington Post, was recently hired by Slate; I've never met Weigel or even e-mailed with him.) At the same time, I understood Klein's impulse. That impulse being: Listservs are wonderful! For a lot of topics, e-mail listsespecially off-the-record listsare better than Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr at fostering a sense of community and generating deep, thoughtful conversations.
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2010/08/the_joy_of_listservs.html
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Is Ginni Thomas' Expanding Activism a Problem for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas?
mdbl
Feb 2017
#41
That f'd up view is how they're all seeing it. A woman sitting next to me on a plane last week,
JudyM
Feb 2017
#13
"with minimal costs", she is driving Justice Thomas to quit and make the big bucks.
CK_John
Feb 2017
#11
If we know what they're up to at least we have a better chance at fighting back.
BeckyDem
Feb 2017
#15
Anything posted on a listserv is available to anybody who is a member of the listserv
MiniMe
Feb 2017
#22
Ok, I see your point. She is clueless on how vulnerable she was to how her messages were not
BeckyDem
Feb 2017
#23
No, its not unethical on her part just because her husband is on the court.
cstanleytech
Feb 2017
#36