Newspaper hypocrisy: Anonymity online, but not in print?
Raleigh News & Observer's Ted Vaden points out the hypocrisy of newspapers such as the N&O that require people to sign letters to the editors published in print but allow anonymous comments online.
"The bigger issue isn't technology or staffing, but whether the newspaper does see the need for a higher standard of accountability and transparency for its user community than for other corners of the blogosphere. And whether that standard should be the same as the print version...
Let's go the other direction. The N&O should foster a higher plane of discourse in this supposedly brainy community by requiring accountability of people who use our sites."
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1 comments about 'Newspaper hypocrisy: Anonymity online, but not in print?'Quote found at Wikipedia about a person who was notorious for submitting anonymous letters to the press...
"Benjamin Franklin anonymously published a letter in 1784 informing Parisians that the sun rose before noon, so they could economize by getting up earlier to use morning sunlight, thereby burning fewer candles in the evening.[15] Franklin's mild satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells or firing cannons at sunrise, all in the spirit of his earlier proverb "Early to bed and early to rise / Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Posted by Lizzie Lou at April 10, 2007 11:07 AM
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