Jesse Brown gets it.

He’s a quote from him, on The Agenda regarding the Wentegate.

“It’s not Darn Trends. It’s not Darn Internet [that caused Wente’s plagiarism]. We’re talking about a specific thing here…. It’s not so much the  [Wente] response, but is the Globe [and Mail] okay? And this brings up questions about the Globe that needs to be addressed. Why is their public editor a Globe and Mail lifetime employee? Other places don’t do that. The CBC ombudsman is an outsider, the NYT public editor represents the reader. It is very hard to do that job effectively if you have lifetime careers (Read more…)