Journalists Criticize Woman For Live-Tweeting Her Cancer Experience, Incur Internet Wrath

Journalists Criticize Woman For Live-Tweeting Her Cancer Experience, Incur Internet Wrath

Husband and wife journalists Bill Keller of the New York Times and Emma Keller of the Guardian published recent opinion pieces that took issue with one Lisa Bonchek Adams, a sufferer of stage 4 breast cancer who has been tweeting and blogging about her experience with the illness.

Both articles questioned Adams’s “decision to live her cancer onstage,” as Bill Keller puts it. Twitter’s, and the Internet’s at large, response to the Kellers? How dare you.

Journalists Criticize Woman For Live-Tweeting Her Breast Cancer Experience, Incur Internet Wrath

Adams’s “offending” tweets include posts like:

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