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It wasn't just any productivity software. He was involved with PageStream, which was a popular DTP package. -Joseph (Talk) 12:53, 2004 Sep 18 (UTC)

Contents 1 LGF 2 Johnson's picture 3 Lance 6 Wins 4 Jazz guitarist? 5 Liberal mugged by reality? 6 "Dan Rather's" memos?

[edit] LGF

The following text is bot highly POV and unattributed. Can it be removed?Scott Adler 00:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

The shift in tone of the LGF warblog is adequately covered by the entry for the warblog itself; list of themes he does not discuss on his blog are also not germane to this bio.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dragula (talk • contribs) 02:37, 29 September 2004 (UTC).

(I tracked down the editor's name and added the "unsigned" message. and the "LGF" heading.) "Warblog" was not a pejorative term in 2004, so I'm happy to leave this in place now that it is (so to speak) dated. Cheers, CWC 03:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Johnson's picture

Should it be included? Here's the picture: [1], which was taken from this Forbes list of famous bloggers: [2] --aishel 18:28, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Its a good picture. Although Johnson's photo does not appear on the blog, he has appeared a number of times on the TV, so I think that it is worthy of inclusion.

[edit] Lance 6 Wins

Lance,

If you are reading this please e-mail me.

Thanks, Zeq 10:49, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jazz guitarist?

I see nowhere on the Internet to connect Charles Johnson the blogger and Charles Johnson the guitarist. I've always heard that Charles Johnson the blogger was a programmer by occupation, not a musician. Because this article is on the blogger and many of the artist related attributes are not-so-verifiable, I'm taking the liberty to remove any references to the musician. --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, after rereading the article, it seems like it's best not to remove the references now. I would like a comment on this. --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:58, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Two of the external links, http://www.nysun.com/article/8711 and http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/62000, are Reliable Sources for this connection. Cheers, CWC 09:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Update: both those links are now referenced in the article, following a clean-up I just did. The NY Sun profile is now the very first reference, which I feel strengthens the article. Thanks for the wake-up call, Member. Cheers, CWC 10:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Liberal mugged by reality?

Our statement that Johnson

now describes himself (per neoconservative writer Irving Kristol) as "a liberal who got mugged by reality"

has had a "citation needed" tag since February 2007. I'm fairly sure Johnson would accept that description, but I could not find any example of him using those words. Does anyone have a link to such an example? CWC 10:48, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Dan Rather's" memos?

He gained increased public attention for debunking Dan Rather’s National Guard memos about George W Bush during the 2004 US presidential campaign.

Calling them "Dan Rather's National Guard memos" seems a bit imprecise; that could read (to someone unfamiliar with the incident) as though Rather created the memos. I'll rephrase this a bit (no objection to the content, just want to word it more precisely). Actually, while I'm at it, "National Guard memos" is vague, saying nothing about what the controversy was over, so I'll expand that just a bit.75.139.32.246 09:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Let's be careful about how we describe the memos' authenticity. Remember that this is an encyclopedia, not a discussion forum. HiramShadraski (talk) 19:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)