Stoll is correctReader comment on: Entrapping NPR Submitted by Christopher Mc (United States), Mar 10, 2011 10:14 As someone who has worked in major-market media for more than two decades, both print and broadcast, I can assure you that every mainstream news organization bans this sort of deception. Reporters who falsify their identities would be subject to severe discipline, likely dismissal. This is elemental ethics stuff. So I'm not sure what incidents Kindwarrior and John Hines think they're recollecting, exactly. I think maybe the public just assumes these techniques are typically used by the media -- no doubt there have been films and TV dramas where it's portrayed that way. But in the real world, it really is the realm of no-no. If folks want to have an argument about the propriety of such deception, that's all fine and well. What you don't get to say is, "But mainstream media does it too!" Note: Comments are moderated by the editor and are subject to editing. The Future of Capitalism replies: I think there's some confusion between hidden camera work, which is widely used, and pretexting/pretending to be someone you're not, which is much more rarely used. Submit a comment on this article Other reader comments on this item
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