Leftwing Newspaper Gone Too Far?

[Brian37]

A local New York newspaper sparks outrage from its readers after publishing a map along with the names and addresses of thousands of residents who have handgun permits...Is this the left gone crazy?...isn't this irresponsible journalism and isn't this just inciting more incidences of violence....

"New York newspaper faces backlash after publishing map of gun permit holders"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/...t-holders/

I started a thread about this too. YES they went too far, and I do not care what the issue was that they would be "outing" people for. It was legal because all government documents are available, as they should be, via "freedom of information act", but legal and moral are two different things.

This is a total violation of public trust. I understand the intent wanting to reduce gun death, but this is a completely dirty tactic. If I owned that newspaper that editor and the reporter would be fired.

What these fuckwads do not understand, is there is a difference between reporting a lawbreaker, and the difference between a public figure and private citizen, I took journalism ethics in college and what they did violates every code of conduct of journalism.

If these assholes want to act as public informers and HELP do the right thing which even gun owners want to reduce gun death, becoming Big Brother to do it is sick.

If we were talking about a mafia enterprise, or any type of crime, that would be one thing. But knowing that I myself do things(as we all do) that someone else may not like, I don't want private media violating my privacy because long term(eroding that public trust) hurts all of us.

They could have put front page stories of the dead, or gun death stats, or opinions ect ect ect ect. But prying into the lives of people who have NOT broken is a very dangerous game. If we don't want government doing it, media has even more of a responsibility because it is the ONLY protection of dissent and protection of competing views that ALL OF US SHOULD WANT not to mention our privacy.

These assholes are NOT helping by using this tactic. They have just played into the very needless fascist fears the nutters want in saying "the liberal media". Thanks assholes, for giving the nutters more of an excuse to maintain the status quo.