[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[Risker]

While I cannot speak for the New York Times, Canadian media have acted in
the same way to protect members of NGOs who have been kidnapped.

Perhaps a more pertinent question is why this particular reporter's
kidnapping was more newsworthy than the majority of kidnappings that occur
in the area.

Risker




2009/6/29 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>

> would the news media have acted equally to protect someone kidnapped
> who was not part of the staff of one of their own organizations?
>
> preventing harm is the argument of all censors
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Ken Arromdee<arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> >> > This case is more about basic common sense. If someone's life may be
> >> > endangered by what is on their wikipedia biography but is not widely
> >> > reported elsewhere, I would expect that anyone sensible would find
> some way
> >> > of applying policy so as to keep the life-endangering stuff off it.
> And that
> >> > would take precedence over secondary arguments over whether obscure
> news
> >> > agencies were reliable.
> >> Apparently the news agency is the top of its local area
> >> (Afghanistan), so how you spin that into "obscure" is
> >> frankly beyond me.
> >
> > Besides, if someone's life would actually be endangered by the
> information,
> > it should be taken out under IAR.  It should *not* be taken out by
> abusing
> > the rules to take it out.  That's why we have IAR in the first place.  If
> > you do it by abusing the rules, you undermine the trust that people have
> > placed in the system.
> >
> >
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