> I now need to write everything with the fear that any hastily written article might end up on TV, with the most extreme word in the article singled out with my name on it forever.<p>> I’ll keep writing — I can’t stay away. But academically, it’s not worth the risk.<p>I often, in my role as a community manager, call people out on their words, and they act like no one should be reading them anyway, not really understanding that their statements are public. If you are writing something, or saying something, and you are doing it quickly and harshly, it doesn't seem like you should be able to paint yourself a martyr who now has to live in fear of when you make a "mistake": this sounds a lot more like "careless"?