A pair of opinion pieces published by Guardian columnist Emma Keller and her husband, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, were viewed on the internet as personal attacks on Lisa Bonchek Adams, a Connecticut resident who discusses life with metastatic cancer via Twitter and her blog.
Read more about the Kellers’s inaccurate and vitriolic commentary, what it means to live with metastatic breast cancer, and societal attitudes about life, death, and personal disclosure.
- Bill Keller’s Misguided NYT OpEd Piece, Metastatic Breast Cancer Network (MBCN), Jan. 12, 2014.
- Guardian Deletes Column About a Cancer Patient by Ravi Somaiya, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2014.
- Cue the Kellers by Jody Schoger, Women With Cancer, Jan. 13, 2014.
- “Grief and Death in the Time of Social Media.” BCC member Jody Schoger interviewed on Al Jazeera’s The Stream, Jan. 22, 2014.
- On Cancer PTSD and the Double-Kellering of Lisa Adams by Lani Horn, Breast Cancer Consortium, Jan. 14, 2014.
- Are there Ethics to Tweeting Your Illness? by Gayle Sulik, Psychology Today, Jan. 15, 2014.
- Readers Lash Out About Bill Keller’s Column on a Woman With Cancer by Margaret Sullivan, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2014.
- No Shame: Bill Keller Bullies Cancer Patient, by Greg Mitchell, The Nation, Jan. 13, 2014.
- On Live-Tweeting One’s Suffering by Megan Garber, The Atlantic, Jan. 13, 2014.
- Bill and Emma Keller’s bizarre pieces about cancer patient Lisa Adams by Daniel D’Addario, Salon, Jan. 13, 2014.
- Tweeting Cancer by Meghan O’Rourke, The New Yorker, Jan. 13, 2014.
- What exactly is wrong with the Kellers? by Christie Aschwanden, Knight Science Journalism at MIT, Jan. 14, 2014.
- Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release? by Zeynep Tufekci, Medium.com, Jan. 14, 2014.
- There isn’t a ‘right’ way to die. Journalists should recognise that by Marie Ennis-O’Connor, TheJournal.ie, Jan. 14, 2014.
- A Few Lessons About Twitter, Cancer And Publishing by Linda Holmes, NPR, Jan. 14, 2014.
- There is no right way to die by Bess Lovejoy, Slate, Jan. 14, 2014.
- Twitter Responds: Reactions to Patients Tweeting Their Cancer by Don Dizon, ASCO Connection, Jan. 14, 2014.
- Why an article on Lisa Bonchek Adams was removed from the Guardian site by Chris Elliott, The Guardian, Jan. 16, 2014.
- Cancer in the Age of Social Media by Anas Younes, MD, Cancer.net, Jan. 27, 2014.
