Did online gossip sink law students career?
he Washington Post has a story about a high-powered female law student whose career may have been torpedoed by online gossip: She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, has published in top legal journals and completed internships at leading institutions in her field. So when the Yale law student interviewed with 16 firms for a job this summer, she was concerned that she had only four call-backs. She was stunned when she had zero offers. Though it is difficult to prove a direct link, the woman thinks she is a victim of a new form of reputation-maligning: online postings with offensive content and personal attacks that can be stored forever and are easily accessible through a Google search. [WaPo] The women may have been penalized for what other people said about them online. It’s one thing to be held responsible for your own statements, especially if you publish them under your own name on your personal blog. If this woman’s career was damaged by what other people said about her in chat rooms, it’s
