"Celebrating" Jonah Lehrer's "Crucifixion" with "Schadenfreude"

Stop crucifying Jonah Lehrer! It’s more important that good ideas get disseminated than that magazines keep exclusivity! @jonahlehrer

— Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) June 21, 2012

No one who’s going on about how everyone is “celebrating” Jonah Lehrer’s trouble with repackaging works or “crucifying” him or expressing “schadenfreude” has ever cited anyone who’s actually doing any of those things.

Don’t get me wrong: @romenesko was right to point out a problem. It’s the near-celebrations that followed that bother me.

— Chris Jones (@MySecondEmpire) June 20, 2012

Interesting watching the Jonah Lehrer kerfuffle play out from my perspective. 1st takeaway: journalism is dripping with schadenfreude.

— Mike Daisey (@mdaisey) June 21, 2012

I feel sorry for Jonah Lehrer. I can’t muster any outrage or schadenfreude. The Internet feeding frenzy just makes me sad.

— Don MacDonald (@don_macdonald) June 20, 2012

No one is “feeding” in a “frenzy.”

The only people who are on a “witch hunt” are the people who are pointing out that Jonah Lehrer is being “crucified” or having his minor troubles “celebrated.” But the only witches they’re hunting are fuzzy Internet straw men.

I can also assure you that it is likely that the only people who are actually worked up and upset about this have been two: Pamela McCarthy and David Remnick, and they both work at the New Yorker. And even they might be over that already. (Might be!)