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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog by catacombs on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:26PM (#23616149)
> In such a case, it is standard journalist ethics in The Netherlands to not disclose the name.

That's in The Netherlands, a country with different laws and regulations for the press.

This case is specific to the United States, with its own rules and protections.

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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog by sigstoat on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:42PM (#23616408)
there's nothing stopping the NYT from being more ethical than US law requires them to be. and they regularly argue that current US law isn't sufficiently ethical (though perhaps not on this issue).
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Re:I Am Deleting the Blog by Fnoord on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:41PM (#23619221)
I was talking about an aspect of the ethical standard for journalism in The Netherlands; not the law.
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