Into Oblivion
For
Columbia Journalism Review
description
|
Exploring the complexities of the 'right to be forgotten,' this piece delves into the tension between privacy and journalistic integrity in an age of technological permanence. Highlighting cases like a landmark ruling involving a Belgian newspaper and the initial uncorroborated publication of police statements from George Floyd's murder, it examines how unpublishing requests and editing archives compel newsrooms to navigate the ethics of individual privacy versus preserving an unaltered public record, raising critical questions about the future of journalism. “Journalists can be really complicit in a systemically oppressive system if their bias about who deserves a break and who needs to be held accountable is the final word.” says Joy Mayer, the director of a nonprofit called Trusting News. Tags |
||
| read more |
||