09
Mar
2011
Ball point pen on today's newsprint
I'm not too keen on punked journalism. Whether it's Ian Murphy pretending to be David Koch, punking Scott Walker or James O'keefe's secretly filming an NPR exec, it has it's seeds in dishonestly and I don't care to see an escalation of the trend.
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Yeah, I agree.
Certainly revealing though. I just read through the transcript of the Walker call. Not too much there really. All of this reminds me a little of the arguments in favor of the endless numbers of video cameras currently trained on John Q. Public or government types reading our emails in some room in Langley. The interviewee says something like, "Doesn't bother me, I have nothing to hide." For me, being honest doesn't make the intrusion more palatable. Wonder how often this is done and the punkee does nothing untoward?
Yup, cameras everywhere waiting for someone to slip up.