For those who missed it, Aaron Sorkin wrote an op-ed in the NY Times about the Sony hacking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/15/opinion/aaron-sorkin-journalists-shouldnt-help-the-sony-hackers.html?_r=0 On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 9:05 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > ~"How would you like to live in a world without privacy? We got a taste of > that this week, with the revelations of torture at the CIA, women feeling > comfortable coming forward with accusations of Rape against Bill Cosby, and > the hacking of email at Sony~" (I use ~" to indicate the above is an > approximate quote from Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources) > > Ten years ago I was probably still using CNN as my primary source of news. > When I woke up in the morning I would turn it on to see what was going on > in the world and get informed about overnight developments as I got ready > for work; when I got home from work I would check-in, and before going to > bed I would check-in again. I would also watch it on the weekends, > sometimes at length. > > Now, I have not watched more than 5 minutes at at time of CNN for > non-breaking news in the last 3 years or more. It had become a joke long > before that, but it was a habit it took a while to break. I feel better > informed for having done so. > > This morning when I turned on my TV (to start my Sunday football rituals) > for some reason it was tuned to CNN, and Brian Stelter(?) was in the middle > of Reliable Sources (a program I used to be a dedicated viewer of). I > decided to watch a bit and see what it was like. Literally the first thing > I heard was Stelter making the intro to a package on the Sony Hacking story > with the approximate quote above. I watched the entire package, assuming at > some point he was going to contextualize or differentiate between his three > examples, but he never did. I turned to my NFL pregame shows, reassured in > my decision to avoid CNN as if it were the Home Shopping Network. > > It did create in my a need to make the differentiation somewhere that > Stelter refused to make on his show - this is where I am going to gratify > that need. > > The CIA engaged in a systematic, illegal, immoral, ineffectual and > counterproductive program of human torture for years, and lied to everyone > (the White House, Congress and the American people) about it. The Torture > Report that came out was from the United States Senate, exercising its > legitimate oversight role, and was authorized for release by the President > of the United States. This was not a violation of the CIA's "privacy" - it > was a first (rather feeble) step towards holding criminals accountable for > their crimes. Men who drug and then rape women,and then use their wealth > fame and power to silence them, do not have any right or legitimate > expectation of privacy for these actions. I don't know if Bill Cosby is one > of those men, and he deserves the legal presumption of innocence; but women > who choose to speak out publicly about their claims that he raped them are > not violating his privacy (they may, of course, be lying, but that would be > a different kind of problem). > > The Sony Hacking story has almost nothing to do with the CIA Torture or > Cosby Rape Allegation stories. The people who run Sony may be racist, > sexist douchebags (and we did not need to hack their email to figure that > out), but what has happened to them is a crime, pure and simple. There is > no whistle blowing here, no right of the public to know. It may even be a > form of international information terrorism (this was one of the points > Stelter did make on his show). Lumping this together with the other two > stories makes no sense, unless it is to show how different the one is from > the other two. As it was, Stelter gave the impression he was saying > something like: "Gee, what kind of world do we live in where you can't even > torture people, rape women or make racist jokes about the president in > private without someone blabbing it all over the internet". > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! 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