{"id":15210,"date":"2009-12-28T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15210"},"modified":"2009-12-28T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:27:41","slug":"shining-the-light-of-truth-from-my-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=15210","title":{"rendered":"Shining The Light Of Truth From My Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"

From my live cam Monday night<\/a>:<\/p>\n

guest81: hi
\nguest81: I’m a reporter from the…
\nYourMoralLeader: hi
\nYourMoralLeader: all are welcome
\nYourMoralLeader: even journos
\nguest80: even? lol
\nguest81: I’m writing a story on how bloggers impacted the Tropper scandal in the ultra-orthodox Jewish world
\nYourMoralLeader: cool
\nguest81: would you mind answering a couple of questions for my article?
\nYourMoralLeader: my pleasure
\nguest81: I know that Judaism has laws against the discussions of improprieties. How do ultra-orthodox people react to reading about scandals on your blog?
\nYourMoralLeader: On the one hand, they try to ignore what they read.
\nYourMoralLeader: On the other hand, no man is an island, not even a black-hatted ultra-Orthodox man.
\nYourMoralLeader: When I break big stories, I feel the vibrations travel around the world.
\nYourMoralLeader: If I broke a story big enough, I could see the Pope or the U.S. president having to respond to what I wrote. It all depends on the power of the information, even when it is transmitted by a humble and unassuming blogger such as myself.
\nguest81: Did Rabbi Tropper reply directly to you?
\nYourMoralLeader: Reality impinges on even the most Orthodox.
\nYourMoralLeader: I’m not sure. Not under his name.
\nYourMoralLeader: I find a lot of ultra-Orthodox responding to me under pseudonyms, but the content of what they write and how they write often gives them away.
\nguest81: I apologize for not researching this before asking – but what is your personal religious affiliation?
\nYourMoralLeader: Orthodox
\nYourMoralLeader: my wikipedia profile accurate in that regard
\nguest81: ah
\nguest81: I came across a number of blogs during research for this article
\nguest81: I didn’t check the backgrounds of the authors on wikipedia. My apologies.
\nYourMoralLeader: NP
\nYourMoralLeader: If we had but world enough and time…
\nguest81: Last question regarding the Tropper story – do you think blogs keep people honest by preventing them from hiding the truth? Are there any negative implications of that (i.e. should the story be an error)?
\nYourMoralLeader: Blogs, like many means of communication, can help keep people honest. They can also do vast amounts of needless damage, destroying lives, marriages, synagogues, and communities.
\nguest81: What’s your take on this particular story? Are future victims protected? Were lives ruined?
\nYourMoralLeader: I’m just surfing the wave. I have no idea what will happen when it falls. I did this story on autopilot. I didn’t do much thinking on it. It seems obvious to me that R. Tropper was set up. It seemed obvious to me before the story that R. Tropper was self-destructive and a danger to himself and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From my live cam Monday night: guest81: hi guest81: I’m a reporter from the… YourMoralLeader: hi YourMoralLeader: all are welcome YourMoralLeader: even journos guest80: even? lol guest81: I’m writing a story on how bloggers impacted the Tropper scandal in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20394],"tags":[20734,20733,20735,9541,20732,20731],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-r-leib-tropper","tag-improprieties","tag-light-of-truth","tag-pseudonyms","tag-religious-affiliation","tag-shining-the-light","tag-world-enough-and-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15211,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions\/15211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}