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Subject: Re: Sometimes it is hard to walk the line as a journalist

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 21:35:03 12/21/97

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On December 21, 1997 at 23:52:14, Komputer Korner wrote:

>Are you suggesting that I should not act like a journalist when I
>receive a tip that had already been published?  What am I supposed to
>do, pretend that the workaround didn't exist when I knew that others had
> discovered it?

I am not a journalist, I have not taken journalism classes.  If anyone
out there knows more and wants to respond to this and set either or both
of us straight, please do.

The impression I have is that a journalist reports news.  And the fact
that someone has left their back door unlocked does not seem to me to be
news.  Reporting this information simply provides an invitation to
steal, it is very likely that no good use will be made of the
information.

Regardless of the legality of reporting such information, the ethics of
reporting it seem clear, don't they?

bruce



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