Comments on: Would You Withhold Information If It Meant Saving a Life?

By: Koos

Koos — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:11:31 +0000

This reminds me of Prince Harry going to …Iraq, if i remember correctly?… and some clever partner apparently putting it on his blog. So he had to be returned to Britain immediately. And so a deployment ended with a selfish search for fame by a nameless blogger riding on someone else’s name.

By: Brenon MacLaury

Brenon MacLaury — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:22:11 +0000

I’m not a journalist, but I really believe (or I’d like to believe) that if I were, I’d withhold the information. I’d like to think that keeping someone from being killed is more important than letting the world know something that is most likely irrelevant to their everyday lives. Thanks for the thought-provoking post!

Brenon MacLaury

By: Richael | Domain Marvelous

Richael | Domain Marvelous — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:26:50 +0000

Well, I am not a journalist, or not aspiring to be one. I respect others privacy and well being, so if the situation is concerned with life and death, then it comes my moral obligation to withhold this information.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:54:06 +0000

People seem to forget that controversial statements in Wikipedia (like “Rodhe was kidnapped by the Taliban while on assignment in Afghanistan.”) need to be cited to reliable sources. And if no news organization is reporting on the abduction, then there’s no basis for inserting those statements into Wikipedia. Wikipedia admins removing those statements could just simply be following the verifiability policy and not necessarily helping to save his life.

By: Chester

Chester — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:30:44 +0000

Definitely. Freedom comes with responsibility. One should also consider that when writing. Be a responsible journalist.