David Johnson

Dear Will,

I was the senior opinion editor at Al Jazeera America and I edited that specific piece. You are totally wrong. In fact, I knew who the real Jeff Jarvis was, I knew who the author of the piece (Rurik Bradbury) was, I knew they were two different people, I knew he published a satirical Twitter account under the name…

Thanks for this. Two responses:

(1) “It is surely unethical for a publication to publish an article under someone else’s name — in which they totally misrepresent their views — unless they could reasonably assume that the audience would understand the piece was meant satirically.”