Oct

30

Whither JAA Blog?

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Bob Norman’s Daily Pulp column at the Broward-Palm Beach New Times ponders what’s going on with the popular Broward Courthouse blog, JAA Blog, which has been silent following a snit between blog author Bill Gelin and the blog moderators, who changed Gelin’s last post.

The post dealt with an exchange between Assistant Public Defender Brian Reidy and Judge Jeffrey Levenson about a teenage boy who had sex with an adult male. Both Reidy and Levenson apologized in a Sun-Sentinel story about the incident.

According to a transcript:

Levenson asked what position the boy played.

The prosecutor, Adriana Alcalde, said he was a linebacker.

But Reidy replied: “Tight end.”

And then Levenson weighed in: “Wide receiver?”

Alcalde expressed her dismay: “Judge, you know, I don’t think that that joke is even remotely funny.”

Levenson immediately apologized: “I take it back, it was politically incorrect, and I really apologize for that.”

Though the changes in Gelin’s post weren’t dramatic, the editing changed the tone of his post and seriously pissed him off. He hasn’t posted since.

More on JAA Blog at the Justice Building Blog.

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