"Sock puppet" incident embarrasses The New Republic, loses blogger his job

Lee Siegel, a senior editor at The New Republic (partly owned by the Aspers) and creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for TNR.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine and his blog was shut down after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. This, according to a story in the New York Times."...a reader accused him of using a “sock