[lbo-talk] reporters forbidden to express opinions, ever

Gregory Geboski greg at mail.unionwebservices.com
Fri Oct 15 11:04:25 PDT 2004


Editor & Publisher via Doug Henwood:

<< Others asked why her blunt assessments could only appear in private and not in the pages of the Journal. >>

The real story, mentioned once in passing, and buried in the tenth graf.

---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:38:07 -0400


>Editor & Publisher - October 15, 2004
>
>To E-Mail or Not to E-Mail: Can Reporters Offer Views in Private
>Correspondence?
>By Joe Strupp
>
>NEW YORK The widely publicized experience of a Wall Street Journal
>reporter in Baghdad, whose private correspondance to family and
>friends ripping conditions in Iraq found its way online and into
>print in October, shows that journalists must guard their e-mail
>comments, industry leaders say.
>
...

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