created 10 July 2009 in links tagged newspapers and spying.
more-or-less every newspaper employed journalists whose specific skill was to obtain private phone records, or ex-directory telephone numbers or other confidential personal information
Of course, I suspect the gutter press aren’t being killed by the internet, only ‘serious’ news outlets. Not that I really care.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009...
created 10 July 2009 in links tagged newspapers.
Very long.
The New York Times, via its reporters acting as proxies, steals documents. It violates laws that everyone else must follow. It uses the information in these documents to sell newspapers, and profits by it. And most important, it uses this process to exercise political power [..] The fact that the Times may commit this class of crime with impunity, while I can’t and you can’t, enables it (with the true press, of course, as a whole) to act as almost a sovereign force. [..] This is considered a normal and ethical practice in early 21st-century journalism. It is actually a criminal practice, which any other century would recognize as such.
In certain lights, the death of newspapers and journalism by the hand of the internet doesn’t look so bad. I’m also starting to consider Unqualified Reservations to be a very dangerous blog to read. I’m a suggestible person.
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/06/crim...
