Martin Cloake: Further points about anonymity in the wake of NightJack
June 24th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Press freedom and ethics, Social media and blogging
Pushing the NightJack discussion futher, journalist and writer Martin Cloake raises some tricky questions for online observers – or anyone who enjoys a good ethical debate. In a previous post, Cloake said that he broadly agreed with a comment on FleetStreetBlues - ‘There is no automatic right of privacy in the street – and neither should there be on the information superhighway.’ Now he elaborates on this, and other points raised by the case: his unease with the Times’s main justification, the problems of the old vs new ‘vendetta’ theory, contradictions in the anonymity debate, why whistleblowers and journalistic sources are another matter entirely, and new boundary issues for the public/private spheres.
Tags: Anonymity, journalist and writer, Martin Cloake, NightJack, online observers, Private, The Times, whistleblower
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