Website The Smoking Gun published last Thursday several leaked personal emails and photos from former U.S. Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, which raised questions regarding the ethics of publishing the information, the Washington Post reported.
The Smoking Gun published the messages and the pictures on Thursday along with an interview with Guccifer, the hacker who reportedly broke into the email accounts of at least half a dozen persons close to the Bush family, the Los Angeles Times said.
The information includes a list of home addresses and phone numbers from several Bush family relatives, pictures of George H. W. in a hospital bed after being treated for bronchitis in December and a message regarding possible funeral preparations for the 88-year-old former president.
Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote that the information might have never been published under ?the old rules of journalism? since? ?most news organizations would have thought twice about publishing personal messages that were, in essence, stolen goods.?
A predictable question might follow: Are there any standards left? From TMZ?s revelations about celebrities behaving badly to high school students? test scores popping up on a local online forum, the titillating, the taboo and the personal all seem to be fair game for someone. It?s not just that information wants to be free ? as the old formulation had it ? nowadays, it can?t help not being that way.
Farhi interviewed William Bastone, the site?s editor and co-founder, who said the ?nature of the hack was so extensive and extraordinary [?] that we clearly thought it was newsworthy. We decided to use a tiny portion of the material that was illustrative of the nature of the various incursions and their seriousness.?
However, several journalists defended the right of privacy of the Bush family, including the Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron, who said his newspaper did not republish the leaked photos and limited to linking to The Smoking Gun?s website.
?I don?t see a reason to display those photos. This is all private to the Bush family. There are no public policy implications here whatsoever,? Baron said.
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