The e-mail was clearly misguided in its interpretation of intellectual-property rights and the Internet. It was also dismissive, unapologetic, and, if made public, potentially far more embarrassing to sender than recipient.
If? Try when.
A recent testy e-mail from Cooks Source managing editor Judith Griggs to freelance writer and blogger Monica Gaudio read, in part, “you should be happy we didn’t just ‘lift’ your whole article and put someone else’s name on it!’’ Gaudio posted the e-mail online, and it went viral. When it did, one question about Griggs’s judgment eclipsed all others: How could anyone assume a communication like that would remain private?
With minor variations, the same could be asked of others making news recently with their private-made-public communications, ones that quickly spread to social-media websites like Facebook and Twitter, to gossip sites like Gawker and Deadspin, and to mainstream media sites like Poynter Online — to the chagrin of those who composed them.
Tucker Carlson, who edits The Daily Caller, a political-journalism website, posed as suspended MSNBC host Keith Olbermann in e-mails to a Philadelphia columnist last week, then claimed he did not expect that his prank e-mails would be published.
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Source: boston.com
By: Joseph P. Kahn
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