A PogoWasRight.org commentary on media invading privacy. Steve Bornfeld has a commentary in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Channel 8 crosses privacy line with Fredericks story” that deals with media crossing lines and invading individuals’ privacy. He writes, in part: Privacy lost to prurience. That was the result when Channel 8 last week reported the humiliating…
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Newspaper editor snitches on a commenter
An online editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has generated a lot of criticism for snitching about vulgar online comments to the commenter’s employer. Jacqui Cheng writes on Ars Technica: Internet commenters aren’t generally known for their eloquence and impeccable manners. Still, people’s tasteless little one-offs are relatively harmless most of the time—until the comment…