Breitbart Offers Money for Unethical Behavior
This is absolutely typical behavior from someone who has demonstrated that his concept of ethics is akin to slash-and-burn warfare: Reward: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected.
That’s right. Andrew Breitbart is offering money to anyone who will steal the contents of a private mailing list and send it to him, so that he can make it public, without the consent of anyone on the list. I have reservations about journalists belonging to a mailing list devoted to promoting liberal views (and I’d have the same reservations about a Journolist dedicated to promoting conservative views) , but something like this is utterly beyond the pale.
I shouldn’t be surprised, I know. After the bogus “Climategate” story, it’s clear that the right has lost any sense of boundaries, ethics, or even decency. But this really is a new low.
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Um, where did he say anything about stealing? I thought the idea was for someone on the list like Weigel to hand over his or her own archived messages. Which is still somewhat slimy, but plausibly falls withing legitimate whistleblowing given the nature of that list and its influence on the public media. It’s surely a lot less slimy that that Harvard student who forwarded her ex-friend’s email around out of personal spite.