HA! Christine O'Donnell

Yeah the title pretty much expresses my reaction to the Gawker article, as well as Christine O'Donnell in general. From my understanding it just seems like the woman can't catch a break and I'm not saying she deserves one, politicians tend to bring this sort of punishment on themselves. With that being said this is not journalism to me its just slander and not even credible slander at that. Who is to say these events are what actually occured during the night in question. Yeah there are pictures (plenty of pictures) but I'm sure a lot of people, myself included, have some incriminating pictures of ourselves on Facebook that look a lot worse than they actually are. I'm not saying Gawker did not actually recieve this story from an anonymous person claiming that they almost had a one night stand with the former Delaware Senate canidate, what I am saying is that Gawker just ran this story without substansial investigation or reporting. It has been stressed in class that a good journalist is to check his sources and is to get a point of view from more than one person, which clearly was not done in this case. In my opinion this was just another shot at a politician who at this point is really an easy target.