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Awesome or awful? Fat camp scholarships

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  • Monday, August 18, 2008 05:45 PM

    Surely you jest, Judy Berman

    You excoriate the author of the NY Times piece for publishing the name and the picture of the girl featured in the article. You question her motives and call her hypocritical. Presumably this is because you are are so committed to the ethical principle that the privacy and anonymity of minors must be protected. But no, that can't be it, because you post a link to the offending article, thus increasing the amount of unethical exposure this little girl will be subjected to. If the NYT author is hypocritical, aren't you doubly so?

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