(December 27, 2012 at 3:24 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(December 26, 2012 at 1:08 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Abuse of power is the issue, and that is what I was addressing. I don't think that should be a "social experiment". This was a very bad and dangerous message that newspaper sent.
It shouldn't have been done, but it now IS a social experiment, the only question is will we bother to try to learn anything from it.
Amongst the things I'd like to learn from the experiment is whether the newspaper benefits financially from its notoriety or suffers. I would hope the latter.