[Seattle-editorial] I just got a disturbing phone call

[Laury]

This is a strange call -- I wonder how legitimate it is.

Here is a guy who is afraid to loose his job, but won't provide his 
name or  point out which article he wants removed from the site.

He works for a media company and should know that most reporters 
violate "off the record" requests -- but still can't stop blathering to 
an Indy reporter.

And most ridiculous of all,  he says the one thing that makes his 
threat to get a lawyer is meaningless:  that the conversation with the 
reporter actually happened.  He isn't claiming that he was misquoted or 
that the conversation was fabricated. He is complaining that the quotes 
were attributed to him.

Yikes!  Is this a clever prank?  Is this some idiot who is filled with 
an uncontrollable urge to talk to spill his guts to any reporter who 
asks him a question?  If he really does work for a media company,  
corporate media is worse off than any of us thought.

-- Laury

On Mar 26, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Jason Reep wrote:

> Hey ya'll,
>
> FYI:
> I just got a phone call from someone (wouldn't give his name) who is 
> apparently quoted extensively in an article published to the Seattle 
> newswire.  He's freaked because he works for a "media company" and was 
> quoted in an article by an indymedia reporter (who he identified as 
> female).  He says that he asked her not to write anything he was 
> telling her down and not to be identified.  He's now in fear of losing 
> his job.  He wants to have his name removed from the article and/or 
> have the whole article removed and mentioned that he may have a laywer 
> contact the IMC.  He asked for the address which I don't know (we do 
> have a PO Box right now, right? is it on the website?)  I told him to 
> send an email tot eh editorila list serve and explain the situation.  
> I gave him a sense of how the decision might get made and told him 
> that it would be worth asking the ed. WG before hiring an attorney.
>
> Come to think of it, I do not know with 100% certainty that he was 
> reffering to an article published on our newswire or the global, but 
> he somehow decided that I was someone to contact with this question. 
> He was able to find my cell phone number somewhere online which may 
> have been why he decided I was to person to call.  I referred him back 
> to the website for the po box address and suggested that he send email 
> the editorial list serve.
>
> ugh, Jason
>
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