Richard Miniter writes an astonishing account of the aftermath of the Scott Beauchamp scandal at The New Republic. The behavior of editor Franklin Foer and the magazine gets curioser and curioser as time goes on. For a magazine with a long history, and a recent history of having been snookered more than once by fabulists, the signs are not good that corrective measures have been adopted.Miniter identifies an internal whistle-blower at TNR, who first raised questions internally and later resorted to anonymous posts revealing that then-anonymous "Scott Thomas" was related to a TNR staffer. The whistle-blower, Robert McGee, is so far the only person to lose his job over the affair, despite growing evidence that both the scandal and aftermath are the product of attitudes and practices at the top.McGee's account of Foer's response to critics reminds me of James Hansen's response to critics. Meeting Foer at a party when the blog criticism was first appearing, McGee...(Read Full Post)