So my comments last month about former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley, unmasked as a fraud, created a small stir. Here's what I said on Romenesko:

Apologies for Jurgensen, Moon?
3/20/2004 2:09:31 PM

From DEREK ROSE: One wonders if all the people who so nastily attacked USA Today editor Karen Jurgensen and publisher Craig Moon here on Poynter will offer them a public apology.

That means you, Lance Gay ("newsroom management must have had other perverse motives"), Matthew Kalman ("a rather vicious and unethical witchhunt"), Mercedes Cardona ("sacrificing good journalists for the sake of office politics"), Liza Koon ("Jack's been treated very badly ... he is no Jayson Blair") and Clara Frenk ("The so-called 'managers' basically ... smeared one of the best reporters I've worked with").

None of them did apologize publicly, though, as best I could tell. I got a couple of interesting emails about it, but none from any of the authors.

(I maybe should have cc-ed them on my email to Romenesko so I could be sure they read it -- but they were posting to the site, so I think it's fair to assume they were readers -- and at the time I thought that would be obnoxious.)

My letter was also picked up by Atrios.