<div>Adam wrote "I asked, as I usually do, that they send me the text first before running it, but in my experience journalists usually can't be bothered to do that".</div>
<div>If I agree with the first part of the remark that bothers with unprofessionalism by members of the the Press corps, I disagree with the affirmation that "Journalists usually cannot bother to do it". Journalism ethics allows for news sources interviewed to look at transcripts of their statements (on demand) before the bulletin goes to print. If Adam requested to read the transcript and the Spanish Journalist refused, thus going ahead to mangle his statement or proceed to utter mis-statement, the said Journalist did go against ethics.</div>
<div>What Adams had to do was to write to the Editor stating the mis-statement and pointing out the fact that he requested to read the interview and ascertain that words were not put in his mouth but the Journalist did not respect it. The Editor will be bound to carry out the correction and in sanction the Journalist for such gross misconduct.</div>
<div>So Journalists usually are not bothered to having interviews visaed by interviewees. They are the interviewees letting bad Journalists go their way by not insisting ā priori to read the transcript before engaging in a one-for-one. </div>
<div>NEXT TIME, INSIST ON HAVING TO READ THE TRANSCRIPT BEFORE PUBLICATION PRIOR TO GRANTING THE INTERVIEW. YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE THIS AGREEMENT IN WRITING BEFORE SITTING DOWN TO TALK. THIS IS MORE SO IN AN AREA LIKE IG WHERE VERY FEW JOURNALMISTS HAVE SOME BACK GROUND</div>
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<div>AARON<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ralf Bendrath</b> <<a href="mailto:bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de">bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Robert Guerra schrieb:<span class="q"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Someone raised a related kind of issue during the Rio IGF -- how do<br>we teach the Internet how to forget (or do we need the Internet to<br>
learn how to forget?)<br></blockquote></blockquote></span>That was about personal information, not about stuff in newspapers.<br><br>The argument is originally from Victor Mayer-Schönberger:<br><<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-022" target="_blank">http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-022</a>><br>
<br>But still:<span class="q"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">As I don't think we want the leading libraries of the world to "forget/erase" books,<br></blockquote>
</span>Most libraries throw out books on a regular basis, because their storage<br>space is limited.<span class="q"><br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I would be - very cautious - with the global knowledge resource (aka.<br>the internet) forgetting facts and thus changing history..<br>
</blockquote></span>Interesting point. I also think that any corrections have to be clearly<br>marked.<br><br>Best, Ralf
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