I don't agree with printing the home phone numbers of the students, but I also think that the students were naive to put them on the press release to begin with. The students know they are dealing with a volatile issue - heck, they probably enjoyed all of the attention until the death threats started coming.
Here's what everyone else is saying:
Crooks & Liars: Malkin understands the nature of the fear and outrage she causes. Will she take responsibility when somebody gets hurt?
Captain's Quarters: leading MS-NBC nutcase Keith Olbermann picked the day when a suicide bomber killed nine people at a falafel stand to choose Michelle as his World's Worst Person of the Day -- for reprinting the information organizers proudly publicized themselves.
Ezra Klein: Punditry is a game of incentives, encouragement, luck. You write a hundred articles before striking paydirt with one ... the unlucky ones, the Michelle Malkins, who achieve acceptance through hatred and venom, and find themselves groping down the darkest path to political success.
Daily Kos: This is not unhinged. This is malevolent.
Eschaton: If Malkin had pulled down their phone numbers after being asked it wouldn't be a big deal. They did put it on their press release. When I post press releases I usually try to remember to pull out the contact information, though I probably haven't always remembered to do so. But if someone asked me to pull it down I would. The fact that a number has been made public somewhere on the internets does not mean that number should be posted on this blog as an encouragement for my readers to call it.
You know - the more I read Atrios at Eschaton, the happier I am that someone with a thoughtful mind is blogging.
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