Many readers don’t know Deborah Solomon either. They can’t click on her name and see her past columns, or even a 2-line bio. One goes to Wikipedia for the latter, which is, of course, at the mercy of anyone.

“Right of Reply” anyone? I mentioned that in my communications with Mr. Hoyt. But I’ll stay ignored…

Now onto Mr. Blodget. Assessing his rehabilitation in a 2004 piece for the Motley Fool, Bill Mann was mostly encouraged: “In fact I can’t help but note just how honest, how shockingly earnest Blodget’s writings have been since he began writing about the stock market for Slate.”

Blodget, for his part, took on rant-man Jim Cramer earlier this year in Slate; on Silicon Alley Insider, he investigated a reader tip that Morgan Stanley star Internet analyst Mary Meeker neglected in her YouTube analysis to factor in that CPM stands for cost per 1000. (Gentle reader, please Google these, since WordPress here still punishes me for adding multiple links.)

As for the association with the Times, it amounts to 4 articles: Two opinion pieces, a book review, and, a contribution to the business section called “Cautious Words From a Chastened Bull.”

Let me also offer a compromise. One, the Times could give a snarky bio line like “Mr. Blodget is the publisher of Silicon Alley Insider who is barred from working in the securities industry.” That should send curious readers to quiz their favorite search engine or encyclopedia.

Two, note that Blodget settled with the SEC without admitting or denying guilt. He has settled with the goverment; with his readers it is a different matter. He should be a little more open to his readers than what he wrote in his Slate disclosure and in the introduction to his latest book. The SEC alleges that he knowingly lied to investors. If so, can he respond to that without violating the settlement?

Note this also applies to A-listers, who can abuse and attack anyone outside their “club”, and that doesn’t matter to insiders either.