{"id":615,"date":"2004-03-10T08:19:10","date_gmt":"2004-03-10T08:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=615"},"modified":"2004-03-10T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2004-03-10T08:19:10","slug":"the-wrongness-of-the-martha-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/the-wrongness-of-the-martha-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrongness of the Martha conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Clifton talks about the Plain Dealer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/weblogs\/dougclifton\/index.ssf?\/mtlogs\/cleve_dougclifton\/archives\/2004_03.html#017157\">pulling Martha Stewart&#8217;s column.<\/a> The explanation is that they don&#8217;t run the work of convicted felons (which makes me wonder, when have they had the opportunity before?).<br \/>\n<P>Doug talks about his uneasiness with the conviction, which echoes my sentiments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHer crime was doing the financially prudent thing when advised that the rats were deserting the stock she held. She sold the stock and denied she&#8217;d done it based on a tip from an insider.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nShow me a thousand investors who wouldn&#8217;t dump a company&#8217;s stock if they learned the founder was dumping his and I&#8217;ll show you an investor who was day dreaming when the whispers began.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In some sense it&#8217;s good that prosecutors are making an example of a high-flying fat cat who by many accounts seems to be due a proper comeuppance. But something about this case sets off my bullshit detector &#8230; whatever Martha did,  the result feels like some Jack McCoy wannabe at the Justice Department wanting to make a name by sending somebody famous up the river.<\/p>\n<p>It just smells, to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Clifton talks about the Plain Dealer pulling Martha Stewart&#8217;s column. The explanation is that they don&#8217;t run the work of convicted felons (which makes me wonder, when have they had the opportunity before?). Doug talks about his uneasiness with&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/the-wrongness-of-the-martha-conviction\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}