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If they consider themselves a "news organization" then they have an obligation to their readers to publish "news". I don't know how much of the documents they'r
by marcusbooster 17y ago
If they consider themselves a "news organization" then they have an obligation to their readers to publish "news". I don't know how much of the documents they're gonna publish (3 of 400?), but hopefully they'll have reasonable judgement; ie. plans for a Twitter tv show is newsworthy (tell me that wouldn't end up on HN), and disclosing private details of an employee is not.
All these docs are gonna be leaked at some point, then everyone will be "reporting" on it.
- Torn 17y ago"Other people will report sensitive info" isn't ethical justification. IMO TechCrunch should have gone down the honest route of 'It's interesting, and news-worthy, and we won't publish anything damaging' in their response instead of bringing in this 'journalistic responsibility' spiel.