This story is a little convoluted, but a woman claiming to be a journalist snuck into a private meeting with Mike Pence and other Trump advisors by slipping past security, recorded the conversation and released it to a number of media outlets.
Anyone remember Newt Gingrich having a private phone call recorded while in a car in Atlanta and the illegally obtained “fruit of the poison tree” audio used by newspapers and opponents of Newt to eventually push him out as speaker?
Expose the left as criminals – works for me.
She is working for the Onion, apparently having failed at actual journalism. The Onion was bought about a year ago by Univision. The dots are pretty straight forward of her motive
this story made my blood boil.
journalism 101: you never misrepresent yourself (this woman posed as the wife of a pol.) you ALWAYS identify yourself as a reporter.
if the organizers of a private gathering toss you out, that’s it.
if it’s a public event, you pull the little card out of your purse, read the provisions re laws concerning the media’s rights to cover the proceedings and ask for time to notify your newsroom so that a lawyer ( kept on retainer for such situations) can be present. then you make the call. and wait to see what happens next.
i poked around a bit on this story. ms. G (the “reporter”) worked for a major metro daily (the philadelphia daily news — turf i knew well back in the day) for two years as a copy editor, not as a reporter. then she moved to the city paper, a few notches down the media food chain here in philly. now she’s with the Onion.
c’mon.
She also posed as an Uber driver, and subsequently posted portions of a private conversation between two riders. She has eavesdropping issues and zero ethics.
right, chairman.
we’re in loose-cannon territory here.
oh — and she went to oberlin.
philly.com (link fred posted above) is the web site for the philadelphia inquirer and daily news (where ms. G used to work.)
seven grafs down from the top, story reads:
‘The secret recordings she is suspected of making were later released anonymously to a half-dozen media outlets, including the Inquirer.”
question 1/what does “anonymously” mean here?
question 2/why didn’t she write the story? (i couldn’t find any trace of same under her byline.)
in the end, all that print reporters have is their fidelity to the truth — and loyalty to their readers.
you don’t play these kind of games.
I am not familiar with Oberlin – can you explain the significance of that?
way liberal and “out there.”
in same ballpark (i think) with reed college. just different weather (ohio gets snow; oregon gets rain.) had friends in high school (class of ’69) who thought both would be great places to while away the next four years.
I read the same story and had the same reaction. While she didn’t describe the couple in detail, the implication was that she was recording their conversation without their consent