Phrase of the day: 'sock puppetry'

By Robert Niles: Tim Lambert at Scienceblogs offers the term "sock puppetry" to describe the offense that has (at least temporarily) cost Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik his blog.

Kevin Roderick at L.A. Observed provides more links and details. Hiltzik, a Pulitzer winner who was interviewed by OJR in a Q&A published this week, was accused by a conservative blogger of posting under multiple identities, using one to support the other. (Just like an actor conversing with a sock puppet.)

The Times responded by suspending Hiltzik's blog, writing that such pseudonymity is against the paper's ethics policy.

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