Slate | New York Times
Jack Shafer suspects New Republic writer
Lee Siegel was
suspended for publicly embarrassing the magazine with his "egomaniacal posts." Shafer thinks it's silly for editors to unpublish Siegel's recent online articles and the offending blog comments. "Instead, the New Republic should have kept them live on the site, appending them with an editor's note detailing Siegel's alleged indiscretion."
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"I made a dumb mistake and I'm very sorry I did it," says Siegel (NYO)
