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When journalists start a privacy war, where does it end?

Which brings me to a comment submitted last night. It was from a first-time commenter, and it contained personal contact information for the Chairwoman of Gannett, including home address, telephone numbers, second home, neighbors, and relatives.

I don’t like the tactic, but it is something done by a Gannett newspaper (at least as to names and addresses).

I’m on board with adopting some of the left’s Alinskyite tactics, like holding them to their own rules, but does this go too far, particularly since she was not directly involved? And the information is much more personal than just name and address.

Is there any newsworthiness in it? No more or less so than the identity of law-abiding gun permit holders.

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It will end when you start turning the tables on them and publishing things on them out in the open.

Fight fire with fire.

watertown on December 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM

Is the chairwoman in a position to stop this nonsense? If so, it’s fair to put pressure on her.

Blake on December 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM

With an apology to the American people on the front page.

HotAirian on December 30, 2012 at 4:46 PM

I’m on board with adopting some of the left’s Alinskyite tactics, like holding them to their own rules,

I get really tired of people trying to raise this Alinsky scum to some sort of political genius. Alinsky was nothing but an immoral nihilist.

It was not Alinsky who thought up the tactic of holding someone to their own rules. That goes back thousands of years and is just plain common sense. The word “hypocrisy” is present in the language to express that basic idea (or the lack of its obvious place in certain minds). I wish people would stop with this “Alinskyite” cr@p. Holding someone to their own alleged rules has nothing to do with Alinsky or his demented ideas or followers.

Sheesh.

ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 30, 2012 at 4:52 PM

With an apology to the American people on the front page.

HotAirian on December 30, 2012 at 4:46 PM

And an even bigger apology to the policemen/women/families who’s names were on that map. They now have a huge target on their backs for any criminal they may have arrested looking for retaliation.

JPeterman on December 30, 2012 at 5:01 PM

“Registered: Democrat”

Schadenfreude on December 30, 2012 at 5:03 PM

When journalists start a privacy war, where does it end?

At the wall.

davidk on December 30, 2012 at 5:22 PM

It ends when the lefty progs that they are cry uncle….

canesfan on December 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM

It will end when you start turning the tables on them ..

watertown on December 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM

Yes, it will end when you turn the tables against them so hard that they regret launching the attack in the first place.

Only then will it end.

It’s all they understand.

It’s a new dimension to “Peace through superior firepower.”

petefrt on December 30, 2012 at 5:35 PM