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Sometimes the news can’t wait

Started by mathewi · 1 år dage siden

A fascinating story in the New York Times about how NBC tried its best to keep the news of Tim Russert’s death from escaping into the wild so that they could make sure that his family knew about it. But Twitter and Wikipedia beat them to it. According to the Times story, Russert was pr ... Continue reading »

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  • "Was the person who changed the Wikipedia page committing an act of journalism, or divulging privileged information?"

    How about neither? As far as I can tell, this person was simply engaging in normal 21st century social interaction. Using terms like "publishing", "journalism" and "news" just obscures the simple reality of it.
  • I suppose that's true, Rick -- except that if something close to
    journalism is involved, there might be more protection for the person
    who got fired for doing it, as opposed to if he was just engaging in
    21st-century social interaction.

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