On James Massola, posted without any other comment. Verbatim, from Wikipedia. ‘During the campaign for the 2010 federal election, ABC managing director Mark Scott cited a posting by Greg Jericho in a speech on the topic of the media coverage of the election. Jericho's opinion was that coverage of the election had been driven by polls rather than policy, and that the public interest was suffering as a result. At the same time, Jericho attended and live-blogged the "media140" conference, which was also attended News Limited journalist James Massola. During the conference, Massola and Jericho were seated at the same table, although Jericho states that the two did not speak on the day. On 27 September, Massola wrote an article in The Australian entitled "Controversial political blogger unmasked as a federal public servant". In it, Massola revealed Jericho's real name and that he was an employee of the Australian Public Service, justifying the outing on the grounds that "the prolific blogger shows a strong preference for the ALP, despite the Public Service code of conduct stating that "the APS is apolitical"". In a follow-up article on 28 September, Massola expanded further on his reasons for naming Jericho, claiming that "the fact he had a partisan point of view, worked in the public service and wrote about his department was a matter of public interest" and "Jericho's decision to 'live blog' the Media 140 conference (was it a sick day, a day in lieu, annual leave, did he clear it with his supervisor?) made my mind up." Massola's article attracted a mixed response, some critical and some supportive. Bernard Keane wrote in Crikey that rather than discuss the content of Jericho's blog, Massola had just launched "a malicious, hypocritical ad hominem attack on him" and pointed out the hypocrisy of The Australian running anonymous opinion columns itself. ABC journalist Jonathon Green opined that "Jericho made the fatal mistake of making them angry, of impugning the conduct of Australian journalism during an election campaign in which the media slowly became a significant part of the story; not so much for what it did but for the debate it let rot and degenerate. Outing him is payback", while journalist Tim Dunlop argued that "It is not their [The Australian's] role to deprive someone of their privacy when they are engaged in a legal activity".’ Massola has form when it comes to this behaviour. And you should ask why.