These hacks are clearly very deliberately done to entice coverage. It's like eye-level candy at checkout.
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Are you arguing that news outlets should impose a blackout on reporting anything in these docs?
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No. It's not exactly the same, but I think a lot about school/ISIS shootings and media. The coverage+
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..should not be on the terms of people undertaking the acts. Manifestos? Summarize, link. Not play on loop.
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This got dropped and I saw the almost entire press corps literally stop in its tracks. It is enticing.
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I've seen misleading stories (corrected later but errors go viral). A lot of misleading tweets. Attention.
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A hack like this should be treated like a historical archive. Massive scandal now? Publish. Rest, slower.
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Selectivity and focused attention are precious, again because it's the age of censorship by info glut.
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Meanwhile, the hack itself is malicious and privacy destroying. That story deserves covering too.
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This didn't fall out of the sky; hacking, indexing & publicizing staffer suicide attempts should have us screaming.
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I think journalism (weak to begin with) is doing poorly adapting to new-style threats to its core function. /end
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@brianstelter@billmaher Wow...Amazing thread. The type of conversation that we should be having right now.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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