Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:00 PM 11/17/98 -0700, you wrote: >If you ever find yourself "in the news", there is a good chance a journalist >may check to see what you have said in the past on the internet. Like it or >not, it is out there in public (and I personally happen to think there are >some big problems with invasion of privacy and dissemination of personal >information on the internet - the trouble is that we tend to make >assumptions about what is "private" - etiquette doesn't usually seem to come >into it). > Tim A > To call a person who would do such a thing a journalist is really stretching the definition of the word. Looking up what someone supposedly said on a newsgroup and taking it as truth is extremely unethical. Its the equivant of the "journalist" getting a letter dropped on their desk anonymously which says that someone said something and then accepting it as true. To keep this lug related that "journalist" might be a photojournalist who uses leica equipment. - -- Michael Garmisa <elmar@nyct.net>