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piling on whitlock

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by henryhenry, Nov 27, 2006.

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  1. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Aiding in the commission of a crime = crime.
     
    Columbo, Dec 3, 2006
    #97
  2. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Disclosure to the readers is the only requirement.

    The only one.
     
    Columbo, Dec 3, 2006
    #98
  3. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Except they didn't help anyone commit that crime. The minute their source showed them that info the crime was committed. Even if they had written nothing the crime would have occurred and it's still plausible that had word gotten out in some other way they'd be asked to identify the leaker, even if a story or book had never been written.

    Again it's not a crime to receive or look at grand jury testimony. It is a crime to divulge it to someone. Huge difference there you seem not to want to look at.
     
    Flying Headbutt, Dec 3, 2006
    #99
  4. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    la douche ... in your world: DISCLOSURE, COLUMNIST WAS CANNED BY (BOTTOM-LINE) SUBJUCT OF PIECE ... DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING LESS THAN SELF-SERVING, UNPROFESSIONAL BACKSTABBING AND REBUILDING OF EGO COVERING THE NEXT 19.6 INCHES. EXPECT REAL, NON-BIASED JOURNALISM TO RETURN IN THIS SPACE TOMORROW. (of course, this is an inferred disclosure, so discount what you've just read.)

    but then again, it ONLY is AOL. we really don't expect real journalism from them anyway. on an up note, columbo's need to repel ethics could land him a gig as whitlock's next online editor.
     
    Tom Petty, Dec 3, 2006
    #100
  5. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Being that someone is the final moment of the commission of the crime.
     
    Columbo, Dec 3, 2006
    #101
  6. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Inferred?

    Cueing Inigo Montoya.....
     
    Columbo, Dec 3, 2006
    #102
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Tom-- your running down a dream here.

    Seriously, do you think ESPN has any ethics issues?
     
    Boom_70, Dec 3, 2006
    #103
  8. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    DD - Luppy has answered us in today's Shooting From the Lip"

    "Apparently we were supposed to get a steroids conviction on Mark McGwire a decade ago because he had a jug of Andro in his locker. I wouldn't ask Shockey for a prediction about where he went to college."
     
    Boom_70, Dec 3, 2006
    #104
  9. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Say you're just walking around one day when someone holding secret grand jury testimony walks up to you and hands you some papers. Not having any idea whats going on, you take a look and realize that all of a sudden you're looking at grand jury testimony. In your mind, you've now become a criminal whether you wanted to be or not. Ridiculous? Yes. But so is the way you're trying to stretch your argument.
     
    Flying Headbutt, Dec 3, 2006
    #105
  10. Fenian_Bastard

    Fenian_Bastard Guest

    You're complicit in the crime, whether you're criminally liable or not.
     
    Fenian_Bastard, Dec 4, 2006
    #106
  11. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    Boom said: "Tom-- your running down a dream here.
    Seriously, do you think ESPN has any ethics issues?"

    boom: two points.

    1. we are speaking (writing) about a gentleman who's the self appointed watchdog of sports journalists. find any irony here?

    2. ethics are ethics. since when do we get to pick and choose when we act ethically?
     
    Tom Petty, Dec 4, 2006
    #107
  12. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Where the fuck is Benmont Tench when you need him?

    There was NO ethical breach.
     
    Columbo, Dec 4, 2006
    #108
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