As a sometime journalist who has gotten in trouble for assuming that my blog was more privayte thn it turned out to be, I have some sympathy with baker—though mine is just a JournalSpace page with a verifiable audience of about four. LA Observed is a bit more high profile. Then too, the fact reported by LYT that what Baker published was an old Lenny Bruce routine seems, if true, to be a fairly important aspoect of the story. If Baker indeed simply reprinted a monologue by a performer who used to be regarded as a saint of free speech, only to be excoriated for it, that tells us something about how times have changed since the early 1960s—and probably not for the better. That he felt obligated to aplogize abjectly, and not even for himslef but for Lenny, is just the icing on the cake.
