BBC ran a continuing story today about the hacking going on at News of the World. It's byline was Kate Middleton 'hacked 155 times' . There is no longer a doubt that hacking was going on, the British courts are just trying to establish how much.
If this lesson is not giving us second thoughts about our own press, it should be. How do the e-mails of Sarah Palin, New Jersey governor, Chris Christi's, staff, and then, Scott Walker, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/emails-released-in-probe-of-scott-walker-aide-103666.html end up in the press? What about the recorded phone calls of the Clipper's owner, or the video of Mitt Romney taken at a private meeting, Is this what passes for journalism? The yellow press of the 1800's could not do better.
We need to have laws that govern the collection and publication of stolen information. Apple tried to stop blogs from posting information it said was proprietary and the courts overruled them. That is because we have pretended to have a free press that could publish anything it gets its hands on, even if it is stolen. Is this what passes for journalism today?
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