LA Times Reporters Treated Like Children
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Did you know that the Los Angeles Times won’t allow reporters to visit Playboy’s website? Neither did the founder of Peacefire:
“It just seemed odd that the class of people that we rely on for our information have less Internet freedom than a citizen in China,” said Mr. [Bennett] Haselton, adding that this was the first time he had heard of blocking software at a newspaper. “We rely on reporters for our information of what’s going on in society, and they can’t necessarily do their job if a third party is deciding what they can see.”
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There was a similar case, last year I think, where a complaint was made against a UK news programme (Channel 4 News, IIRC). They had shown some video clip in which a URL could be seen graffitied on a wall, and someone complained because it lead to a porn site.
The people preparing the story had conscientiously checked the URL, but thought it didn’t work because it got blocked by their filtering system.
Posted by: Jeff Sela | June 22, 2006 08:55 AM