] Three dramatic departures in recent days have highlighted
] the one-strike-and-you're-out nature of trial by
] Internet.

Assasination politics. If you're in the public sphere and you do anything controversial, you're dead, unless your job is to do things that are controversial. The result, we're going to have fewer and fewer CNNs and a lot more Bill O'Reillys. ONLY rabit partisanism is immune from reproach because it doesn't claim to be anything respectable.

In the Blogosphere, Lightning Strikes Thrice (washingtonpost.com)