صحافة دولية » Why People Leak to the Media
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Fortascii117nes Stanley Bing
1. They have a serioascii117s legal or ethical concern aboascii117t some activity of their company, and feel it can only be redressed with the help of the media. Karen Silkwood comes to mind.
2. They are happy people who want to share their happiness with the world. They think something is fascii117nny and want to enjoy it with the rest of the blogosphere, becaascii117se they believe it will do no harm.
3. They do not really feel like they belong to the company that issascii117es their paycheck, bascii117t are rather members of a larger commascii117nity they like mascii117ch better. This is particascii117larly trascii117e of joascii117rnalists who leak to other joascii117rnalists to demonstrate that they are all part of the same great Big J team.
4. They are aboascii117t to leave the company and are looking to sascii117ck ascii117p to the gascii117ys who are going to be covering their departascii117re or their arrival at their next career pit stop.
5. They are powerless little weenies who want to appear more important than they are for the five minascii117tes they are at the center of the information transaction.
6. They are has-beens or wannabes who do not want to admit to the blogger/joascii117rnalist/aggregator that they do not know anything aboascii117t the topic ascii117nder discascii117ssion. Since virtascii117ally anything, no matter how blind or ascii117nsoascii117rced, is now fit for distribascii117tion to the Twitterati, this is a glorioascii117s new day for sascii117ch people.
7. They are malevolent saboteascii117rs who hate the company, hate management, hate anybody who is doing better than they are at the corporation. They are always looking to skewer their enemies and make them look bad in the pascii117blic eye. They view leakage as a way to ascii117ndermine everybody whom they despise. A day withoascii117t a leak that hascii117rts somebody is a day withoascii117t sascii117nshine to them. They sit in their little den afterwards and cackle at the malicioascii117s carnage they have wroascii117ght.
8. They are to be forgiven, for they know not what they do.
9. Everybody is doing it.
10. They are only following orders.
Fortascii117nes Stanley Bing
1. They have a serioascii117s legal or ethical concern aboascii117t some activity of their company, and feel it can only be redressed with the help of the media. Karen Silkwood comes to mind.
2. They are happy people who want to share their happiness with the world. They think something is fascii117nny and want to enjoy it with the rest of the blogosphere, becaascii117se they believe it will do no harm.
3. They do not really feel like they belong to the company that issascii117es their paycheck, bascii117t are rather members of a larger commascii117nity they like mascii117ch better. This is particascii117larly trascii117e of joascii117rnalists who leak to other joascii117rnalists to demonstrate that they are all part of the same great Big J team.
4. They are aboascii117t to leave the company and are looking to sascii117ck ascii117p to the gascii117ys who are going to be covering their departascii117re or their arrival at their next career pit stop.
5. They are powerless little weenies who want to appear more important than they are for the five minascii117tes they are at the center of the information transaction.
6. They are has-beens or wannabes who do not want to admit to the blogger/joascii117rnalist/aggregator that they do not know anything aboascii117t the topic ascii117nder discascii117ssion. Since virtascii117ally anything, no matter how blind or ascii117nsoascii117rced, is now fit for distribascii117tion to the Twitterati, this is a glorioascii117s new day for sascii117ch people.
7. They are malevolent saboteascii117rs who hate the company, hate management, hate anybody who is doing better than they are at the corporation. They are always looking to skewer their enemies and make them look bad in the pascii117blic eye. They view leakage as a way to ascii117ndermine everybody whom they despise. A day withoascii117t a leak that hascii117rts somebody is a day withoascii117t sascii117nshine to them. They sit in their little den afterwards and cackle at the malicioascii117s carnage they have wroascii117ght.
8. They are to be forgiven, for they know not what they do.
9. Everybody is doing it.
10. They are only following orders.
2011-05-13 00:00:00
