[WikiEN-l] The terrorists have won

[Gwern Branwen]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05pubed.html
'The Public Editor: Journalistic Ideals, Human Values'

"Although word spread quickly last November among Western reporters in
Afghanistan that Rohde, Ludin and their driver, Asadullah Mangal, had
been snatched, The Times persuaded news organizations around the world
to keep a lid on the story with a simple appeal: The kidnappers had
demanded silence. “Possibly by defying them, we would be signing
David’s death warrant,” said Bill Keller, the paper’s executive
editor."

Hm. So if the terrorists do not make any demands about silence, it is
our ethical duty to censor ourselves, as many wiser heads than mine
have expounded about at length in many forums such as WikiEN-l.

But if they do make demands about silence, it is our ethical duty
to... censor ourselves?

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gwern
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