[governance] how to un-digg?

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

It really is a consideration as to whether the journalist agreed to  
allow Adam to read before publication.  If he did, and did not follow  
through then he behaved badly.    I do not think that having a signed  
piece of paper would matter, nor contacting the editor. If the  
journalist is going to be dishonorable, it is  almost certain that he  
or she is doing so with the complicity of the editor and pieces of  
paper mean very very little - except as kindling.

I think the only reasonable policy is to say as little as possible to  
the press and only when it suits your purposes, and when you do, know  
for sure that they are going to mangle your words to suit their  
political and sales objectives.  And if, perchance, you find one who  
is honorable and does a truthful job, thank your lucky stars for you  
will have met something as rare as truth.  And of course then you can  
feel free to talk to that one again. In fact I would recommend you  
treat the press as you would any other stranger on the street or on  
the net, with great caution until you know them and their reputation.

a.

Ps. no condemnation meant against the few members of the press that  
participate in the civil society lists.  I expect you are among the  
rare ones - otherwise the nonsense of this list would have long since  
amused interested readers worldwide.

On 21 May 2008, at 09:10, Nyangkwe Agien Aaron wrote:

> 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".
> 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.
> 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.
> 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 à priori to read the transcript before  
> engaging in a one-for-one.
> 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
>
> AARON
>
>
> On 5/21/08, Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:  
> Robert Guerra schrieb:
> Someone raised a related kind of issue during the Rio IGF -- how do
> we teach the Internet how to forget (or do we need the Internet to
> learn how to forget?)
> That was about personal information, not about stuff in newspapers.
>
> The argument is originally from Victor Mayer-Schönberger:
> <http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP07-022>
>
> But still:
> As I don't think we want the leading libraries of the world to  
> "forget/erase" books,
> Most libraries throw out books on a regular basis, because their  
> storage
> space is limited.
>
> I would be - very cautious - with the global knowledge resource (aka.
> the internet) forgetting facts and thus changing history..
> Interesting point. I also think that any corrections have to be  
> clearly
> marked.
>
> Best, Ralf
>
>
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