On Saturday, in response to the posting of the article on the Web site of The New York Times, Mike Kortan, a spokesman for the F.B.I., said "it is important to emphasize" that community of interest data is "no longer being used pending the development of an appropriate oversight and approval policy, was used infrequently, and was never used for e-mail communications".
Also, neither the authors nor EHP contacted me before posting of the article.
Update (9 42PM EST 8/8/2012): Since the posting of this article Fox and Friends has come forward and offered Mr. Robbins a rare on-air retraction and correction of their original inaccurate report.
In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!" However, after the initial posting of this article, he changed his mind, and agreed to an on-the-record meeting with reporters, editors, and columnists.
CORRECTION: In the original posting of this article, there were two details that were incorrect.
"It also appears that the number of comments posted on the article in question was above average and indicated a great deal of interest in the matter among the readers and those who posted their comments.
We selected 12 articles to include in the analysis; for each article, the news source, headline, date of publication, total number of comments posted for the article, and the number of comments included in the analysis from that article are provided in Table 2.
Then, in the wake of the attacks -- and the posting of Carney's article, AP images of "Piss Christ" were removed, and the photos are no longer accessible online.
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(Quick aside: in the comments under the Breitbart posting of Fournier's article, a far-right commenter wrote: "Grab some John Galt gear from [Café Press store link] and join us at your local Tea Party this April 15th".
Gawker.com, the media gossip and news site, posted images of the article, asked Russian-speaking readers to translate it, and began posting the translation.
