Watching the Watchblogs

The New York Times' Jodi Wilgoren says she subscribed to e-mail alerts for the latest postings on The Wilgoren Watch, a blog dedicated to "deconstructing" her coverage of Howard Dean.

"If people were writing about my work and talking about my work, I wanted to know what they were saying." Wilgoren's fiancé and father were angered by what were sometimes very personal attacks against her. But she suggested they suppress their urges to defend her and warned of "Lemon-Lyman" syndrome--a reference to an episode of NBC's "The West Wing" in which Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman writes to correct a Web site and becomes the target of a cyber frenzy. "Beware of writing back," Wilgoren counseled. "No good can come of it." The reader feedback she received through Wilgoren Watch as well as other blogs and e-mails "typically did not reflect much knowledge about or understanding of mainstream journalism," Wilgoren says, and often came from passionate Dean supporters. "I got many, many letters accusing me of being a tool of the Republican administration or trying to destroy Howard Dean."

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