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“We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings,” Janet Hasson, the president and publisher of the Journal News Media Group, told POLITICO in a statement…

“Frequently, the work of journalists is not popular,” Hasson said. “One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular.”

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I’d rather have a sister working as a hooker than a brother who was a “journalist”.

Hookers have standards, and provide an honest service.

HondaV65 on December 27, 2012 at 10:13 AM

but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings

Pyschotic liberal.

These people justify their actions with nonsense. In the end liberals do nothing but make things worse. Liberalism is a pox upon humanity.

darwin on December 27, 2012 at 10:15 AM

“One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular.”

Probably not one article criticizing democrats in the papers entire archive.

darwin on December 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM

I wouldnt mind being on such a list. Criminals would give my property a wide berth. For most of my neighbors on the other hand…

Valkyriepundit on December 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM

Puhleeze

cmsinaz on December 27, 2012 at 10:19 AM

“Frequently, the work of journalists is not popular,” Hasson said. “One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular.”

Unless such information contradicts with their relentless pursuit of the progressive utopia.

Naturally Curly on December 27, 2012 at 10:23 AM

Hasson, so if they face harassment from the i*iot brigade, would you take responsibility? Better yet, if info bout women who have had abortions in that area was publicised, would you have the same view? Hey, if you can ki** the unborn, who knows what else you’re capable of?

tommy71 on December 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM

“Frequently, the work of journalists is not popular,” Hasson said. “One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular.”

Baloney. These guys are trying to foment violence against the people on the list.

Doomberg on December 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM

tommy71 on December 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM

While your motivation is spiteful, you’re not wrong. Privacy does not exist the way we’ve understood it. You don’t actually have a right for people not to know things about you, and while I don’t think a law requiring a public abortion registry will garner enough support to pass, I can’t imagine it being unconstitutional in any way.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM

Baloney. These guys are trying to foment violence against the people on the list.

Doomberg on December 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM

Yeah, that makes sense. “Hey, these people are armed, go f*ck with them!”

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM

Journal News President:
—Janet Hasson, 3 Gate House Lane Mamaroneck, NY 10534 (914) 694.5204

Editors:
—Cyndee Royle, 1133 Westchester Ave., Suite N110, White Plains, NY 10604, 914-694-9300
–Nancy Cutler 9 Woodwind Ln, Spring Valley, NY. (845) 354 3485

Parent company of The Journal News Gannett
—–CEO Gracia C Martore 728 Springvale Rd Great Falls, VA 22066 (703) 759 5954

The reporter on the story is:
–Dwight R Worley 23006 139 Ave Springfield Gardens, NY 11413 (718) 527 0832

idesign on December 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM

@ernesto I was just putting forward a hypothetical. If that happened, the leftists and the MSM would be howling in outrage.

tommy71 on December 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM

tommy71 on December 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM

But why would you want them howling in outrage? Do you consider this map to be particularly outrageous?

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM

The Democrats get their good press in part by promising or implying that members of the press are welcome to come and work for them in an official capacity. They can also decide that they won’t hire anybody from a media outlet that is not friendly enough. The House has over twice as many Democrats as the Senate, even if the Democrats are the minority in the House. That’s a lot of openings for press secretaries, and with politicians local enough that competition for those jobs is not all that high.

What if Republicans used our control of the House and thereby the Ethics Committee to pass an ethics rule forbidding the hiring of media employees from a media organization above X size for a period of five years after they leave the employment of the media company? Local papers’ political reporters will no longer be the farm team for Congressman Libtard’s press office, which in turn has been the farm team for Senator Gungrab’s press office.

You will find underneath the bleating about “journalism,” a hope for journalists from that organization to get jobs and move up the political ladder. To cross that line between reporting on policy and shaping policy. Publishing that list was an audition.

Sekhmet on December 27, 2012 at 10:46 AM

@ernesto yes. Its akin to encouraging harassment.

tommy71 on December 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM

This is a move to attempt to publicly shame people who are gun owners.

blatantblue on December 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM

“We knew publication of the database (as well as the accompanying article providing context) would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings,” Janet Hasson, the president and publisher of the Journal News Media Group, told POLITICO in a statement…

Obviously, because every one of those gun owners are clearly about to go shoot up schoolchildren.

blatantblue on December 27, 2012 at 10:52 AM

idesign on December 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM

Tweet it. Then tweet it again. They want to play Alinsky? Good, let’s play Alinsky. Bring it.

Here comes the Alinskyite Right
Thomas Lifson, The American Thinker

David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note.

Journal-News needs the same treatment.

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM

blatantblue on December 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM

Have you seen the map? Westchester county is full of gun owners. The map has dots on every block, and that’s only pistol owners. The one thing I will say, though, is that a lot of the guys I knew growing up who liked to deal drugs and get into big brawls apparently own guns, according to this map.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:03 AM

idesign on December 27, 2012 at 10:36 AM

Here’s more contact info on people with News-Journal responsible for publishing ID info on legal gunowners: For What It’s Worth http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sauce-for-the-goose/

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM

novaculus on December 27, 2012 at 9:45 AM

noted in a related thread, here’s the NY law that seems to have been broken: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A09388&term=

Tweet it. Spread it around. Give the Journal-News a dose of their own medicine.

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM

DRUDGE: SENATE TO GO FOR HANDGUNS

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Frequently, the work of journalists is neither work nor journalism.

I hope the staff of this rag is enjoying the retaliatory public disclosure of their home addresses and phone numbers.

CantCureStupid on December 27, 2012 at 11:18 AM

Here’s more contact info on people with News-Journal responsible for publishing ID info on legal gunowners: For What It’s Worth http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/sauce-for-the-goose/

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Just posted the original list of names over at Mediaite, getting a number of hateful responses. I wonder why that is? LOL

idesign on December 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM

What scumplicity slimestream “journalists” do is spew propaganda all day long.

As for publishing gun owner personal information … for as stupid and corrupt a state as Illinois is, legislation was actually passed, by a wide margin too, and signed into law in July 2011 protecting gun owner privacy. The legislation was passed in response to a dispute between the state police who did not want to release the information and the lovely AG Lisa Madigan who was ordering them to release it in response to a FOIA request by the AP.

stukinIL4now on December 27, 2012 at 11:37 AM

but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important

Bullcrap. You felt publishing a “shame list” would force people to give up their rights. “[S]haring information about gun permits” would have been much different information. Perhaps there should be a permit issued for the exercise of your First Amendment rights? After all, regulation and partial bans don’t actually infringe those rights. Right?

GWB on December 27, 2012 at 11:37 AM

idesign on December 27, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Good, I spent the better part of the morning spreading it around too. Take the fight to them.

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 11:39 AM

The one thing I will say, though, is that a lot of the guys I knew growing up who liked to deal drugs and get into big brawls apparently own guns, according to this map.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Wow! What a crazy notion! One might take that information and come to a reasonable assumption that gangs and drug culture are strong contributory factors to violent crime in America!

…. nope, I’m sure it’s just the fact that guns exist at all.

The Schaef on December 27, 2012 at 11:48 AM

The Schaef on December 27, 2012 at 11:48 AM

Hey, we’re all for dealing with that problem, but the main proponents of prohibition (and thus gang existence) are conservatives.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM

The one thing I will say, though, is that a lot of the guys I knew growing up who liked to deal drugs and get into big brawls apparently own guns, according to this map.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:03 AM

Since these permits are subject to a background check, and since the Gun Laws in New York are Strict as to backgrounds in crime, I Seriously Doubt the credibility of your statement.

jaydee_007 on December 27, 2012 at 11:58 AM

I wonder how the Left would feel if a newspaper published the names and addresses of everyone in the area who had an abortion?

Socratease on December 27, 2012 at 11:58 AM

Hey, we’re all for dealing with that problem, but the main proponents of prohibition (and thus gang existence) are conservatives.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM

You’re saying the only reason gangs exist is because gangs are prohibited?

The Schaef on December 27, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Hey, we’re all for dealing with that problem, but the main proponents of prohibition (and thus gang existence) are conservatives.

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Right, because if not for those pesky drug laws your scumbag neighbors would otherwise be rogue scholar’s? Again, you have been indoctrinated by a childish ideology where all short-comings are fault of another entity.

The biggest problem in this country is the so-called poor. They are parasites on culture in general.

ClassicCon on December 27, 2012 at 12:03 PM

You don’t actually have a right for people not to know things about you

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM

Please expand on this.

Del Dolemonte on December 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM

The real angle on this should be that the power of the press is a right that should not be taken lightly else it be corrupted into the real of one-sided propaganda.

For the good of the public and to ensure that journalistic integrity is maintained we should demand to the know the voting record of every journalist and newsroom editor as well as any contributions to social/political organizations.

For the good of the public right?

ClassicCon on December 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM

Do you consider this map to be particularly outrageous?

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Do you consider the map a blogger made in response to this that showed the home addresses of many of the “reporters” for this paper to be outrageous?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blogger-retaliates-against-paper-that-published-gun-owner-addresses-by-creating-interactive-map-of-its-employees/

In retaliation against the New York newspaper — the Journal News — that published the addresses of those pistol permit holders in two of the state’s counties, a blogger has created a map pinpointing the addresses of the newspaper’s employees.

Mimicking the title of the Journal News’ original article, Robert Cox with “Talk of the Sound” headlined his post: Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood?

Del Dolemonte on December 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM

You don’t actually have a right for people not to know things about you

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM

I’m glad you conceded the “right of privacy” argument. That now makes the ruling on Roe v. Wade suspect.

nobar on December 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM

Map: Where are the Journal News employees in your neighborhood? http://shar.es/hIqyN

petefrt on December 27, 2012 at 12:23 PM

You don’t actually have a right for people not to know things about you

ernesto on December 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM

I’m glad you conceded the “right of privacy” argument. That now makes the ruling on Roe v. Wade suspect.

nobar on December 27, 2012 at 12:21 PM

And it also validates all of the right of privacy war crimes Chimpy Bush and Cheney and Asscroft committed right after 9/11.

Thread over!

Del Dolemonte on December 27, 2012 at 12:39 PM