Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat Logs)

Re:Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat... by lionhearted on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @11:35PM (#2047913)

This sort of thing never winds up reflecting well on people involved, just getting caught up in a personal back and forth and speculating on people's motives and nonsense like that. This part seemed particularly silly to me - Greenwald emails on Christmas and when they don't respond by the 26th, he says they're acting unprofessionally -

> Nonetheless, once the Times story — and our explanation — was over a week old, Greenwald sent Poulsen an e-mail inquiring about it, and giving him one day to respond to his questions. He sent that e-mail on Christmas Day.

> When we didn’t meet the urgent Yuletide deadline he’d imposed on himself to publish a piece about a 10-day-old newspaper article, he wrote in his column that we “ignored the inquiries,” adding: “This is not the behavior of a journalist seeking to inform the public, but of someone eager, for whatever reasons, to hide the truth.”

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Re:Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat... by wycats on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @11:42PM (#2047930)

What part of what Wired is doing seems amateurish? I thought this response was thoughtful, well reasoned, and professional.

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Re:Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat... by lionhearted on Tuesday December 28, 2010 @11:51PM (#2047944)

I could've phrased it better - I meant that that the whole unfolding of events generally doesn't reflect well on participants. Just getting sucked into a mudfight is bad, though their response was good. I'll do a clarity edit.

For context, here's my exact edits:

Before - This whole thing is coming across pretty amateurish on all sides.

After - This sort of thing never winds up reflecting well on people involved, just getting caught up in a personal back and forth and speculating on people's motives and nonsense like that.

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Re:Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat... by spot on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @11:51AM (#2049261)

The part where they didn't say if Lamo is telling the truth or not.

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Re:Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat... by A1kmm on Wednesday December 29, 2010 @02:33AM (#2048237)

"and the principal is also embodied in the Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics"

I'm not usually one to pick on spelling, but when such an egregious error is present in an article by a supposedly professional news organisation defending the professionalism of said news organisation, it is hard for it not to hurt the credibility of their entire writing, fact checking and proof-reading pipeline.

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