I was waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one, and now it has. As reported previously, the Cleveland Plain Dealer recently unmasked an online commenter and identified her as a judge. Now the judge is suing the paper for $50 million. Jeff Gorman of Courthouse News reports: A state court judge demands…
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Crossing the line: Reporters – and editors – aren’t cops
A PogoWasRight.org commentary on media invading privacy. Steve Bornfeld has a commentary in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “Channel 8 crosses privacy line with Fredericks story” that deals with media crossing lines and invading individuals’ privacy. He writes, in part: Privacy lost to prurience. That was the result when Channel 8 last week reported the humiliating…
Newspaper editor snitches on a commenter
An online editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has generated a lot of criticism for snitching about vulgar online comments to the commenter’s employer. Jacqui Cheng writes on Ars Technica: Internet commenters aren’t generally known for their eloquence and impeccable manners. Still, people’s tasteless little one-offs are relatively harmless most of the time—until the comment…