She's more than welcome to express an opinion, but not with such failtastic implications and misinformation.
Every now and then, there'll be a spate of authors declaring that they are (or are not) obligated to be ethical in their fiction. Well, they don't put it that way, but it's the whole 'responsibility to the reader' kind of thing. And I get that in fiction, it's fuzzier -- but it's definitely anything BUT fuzzy when we're talking non-fiction of blog posts, essays, and the like. There, the author most definitely has every obligation to be ethical, to be responsible concerning her target population, and to recognize that any inaccurate and idiotic message is going to be additionally distorted by the size of her megaphone. Lindholm, it seems to me, does have a large megaphone by dint of her fiction, but she's doing some potentially major damage to her own audience with the BS she's broadcasting.
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Date: 11 Jun 2010 04:20 pm (UTC)Every now and then, there'll be a spate of authors declaring that they are (or are not) obligated to be ethical in their fiction. Well, they don't put it that way, but it's the whole 'responsibility to the reader' kind of thing. And I get that in fiction, it's fuzzier -- but it's definitely anything BUT fuzzy when we're talking non-fiction of blog posts, essays, and the like. There, the author most definitely has every obligation to be ethical, to be responsible concerning her target population, and to recognize that any inaccurate and idiotic message is going to be additionally distorted by the size of her megaphone. Lindholm, it seems to me, does have a large megaphone by dint of her fiction, but she's doing some potentially major damage to her own audience with the BS she's broadcasting.