QUOTE(Daniel Brandt @ Thu 25th May 2006, 9:02pm)
2006-05-26: From her
latest sign-off: "But this latest attempt to compromise my privacy, combined with a threat to try to somehow have my livelihood taken from me, caps off a long two months of reevaluating whether volunteering here is worth it."
Excuse me, I wasn't the one who compromised your privacy. You were, by leaving a trail of cookie crumbs all across the web. And that was after you stuck your hand in the cookie jar, which you shouldn't have done in the first place as a professional journalist. I merely pointed out what every journalist already knows, and spent a couple of hours surfing the web.Isn't that what journalism is about -- connecting the dots that others don't have the time or energy to connect?
The
very first question I asked myself was this...
If she has not broken ANY ethic rules or released confidential information that these reporters do get from time to time why would she just up and leave? Did she edit a or few congressional member's that she was not suppose to? Did edit them and removed information to have them look better at the request of the Congress Person?
She clearly left a trail -- WP username is the same as her Yahoo nick. Yahoo is like a gold mine for information especially on there forums. She clearly states she is a Congressional reporter on Yahoo. Even says so on a WP talk page.
Everyone needs to think outside the box on this one. Its not a clear-cut case at all. There are many ethical questions I have here about this.
And another thing she has forgotten so easly is that she is a high profile journalist who is easy to track down. However she claims her privacy was violated and tries to convince the rest of them that is the case. All lies. She needs to learn or re-learn her ethics she was taught in journalism classes.