Preserving the anonymity of a source is no longer a defensible ethic in journalism; it is clear to any thinking person that nearly all of the media outlets that are reasonably accessible cater to special interests, either commercial or political and by making yellow journalism the norm they force full disclosure and traceable accountability to become more important than assured anonymity.
I might have fought to the death for an infrastructure that preserved my right to free speech and my guaranteed anonymity ten years ago but I'm older and smarter and more experienced and I say free speech is only for individual people who are willing to identify with what they say.
Too much wrong has been made tacitly acceptable and par for the course with corporate proxies and plausibly deniability and the merging of all media which swept the NEWS soundly from the realm of fact.
I don't allow anonymous posting in my journal and I don't think it should be allowed to justify erroneous controversy or the avoidance of same.
You have NEWS? You have to stick around and get on camera and tell us what your name is.
If it's not important enough for you to stand up and walk your talk then shut up and sit down and suffer.
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Date: 2005-07-08 12:12 am (UTC)it is clear to any thinking person that nearly all of the media outlets that are reasonably accessible
cater to special interests, either commercial or political
and by making yellow journalism the norm
they force full disclosure and traceable accountability to become more important
than assured anonymity.
I might have fought to the death
for an infrastructure that preserved my right to free speech and my guaranteed anonymity
ten years ago
but I'm older and smarter and more experienced
and I say free speech is only for individual people
who are willing to identify with what they say.
Too much wrong
has been made tacitly acceptable
and par for the course
with corporate proxies
and plausibly deniability
and the merging of all media which swept the NEWS soundly from the realm of fact.
I don't allow anonymous posting in my journal
and I don't think it should be allowed to justify erroneous controversy
or the avoidance of same.
You have NEWS? You have to stick around and get on camera and tell us what your name is.
If it's not important enough
for you to stand up and walk your talk
then shut up and sit down
and suffer.