I wish you’d linked to my post in which I provided background to your decision to out me despite your acknowledging I had a pledge of confidentiality from The Chronicle (TC).

The post also contradicts other statements you make here.

If you’d provided readers with a link to my post, they could read the background and my response to your post above?

This links to my post responding to what you say will find it here:

http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2008/04/chronicle-editor-defends-outing-i.html

Why didn’t you link to your Apr. 23 column in which you outed me, and to the column’s comment thread which now has more than 75 comments?

Many comments acknowledge your decision to out me gave you satisfaction.

But they go on to note by outing me you hurt those honest and able Chronicle staffers who do fine, often outstanding work, but who will now find it harder to do such work because people will be less willing to trust a pledge of confidentiality from TC and serve as news sources.

Are you planning to say anything in response to those comments?

Will you give TC readers an account of your version of how you learned my identity and made the decision to out me?

From what you’ve said at TC and emailed to me, it looks like your saying now that others at TC helped you identify me in a process tracing me through a comment call I made to TC and then using the Duke Alumni directory, etc, etc.

But you knew my identity from the first. You told me your predecessor as editor, Ryan McCartney, had shared it with you.

And are you planning to tell readers just what I did that so upset you and led you to out me?

You spoke in your column of “John in Carolina and his ilk.”

Who are what you call “his ilk?”

Are they students, alumni and others who’ve kept asking why TC has never spoken out to condemn the racists who threatened Reade Seligmann and to express TC’s support to him and his family during that ordeal?

You do know, editor Graham, most people believe TC would’ve spoken out had the racists been white and Seligmann black? Do you agree?

I’m writing this on May 9. Were it not for the terrible ordeal he endured and the Brodhead/Steel decision to throw Seligmann and his teammates under the bus, Seligmann, an outstanding student, would almost certainly be graduating this Sunday.

By “ilk” did you mean students and parents who were saying more than a year before Abighit Mahato’s murder that TC’s editorial board should be doing more to urge the Brodhead administration to assure Durham police treat Duke students fairly and provide more information and protection to Duke students and others in the areas around campus?

Thank you for your attention to this comment.

Sincerely,

John in Carolina