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So there's no right to be forgotten.

All we're dealing with is how do we handle difficult, wrong, inaccurate, inconvenient, public information.

This is your host, Scott Bertram, and that's John J. Miller,

director of the Dow Journalism Program here at Hillsdale College.

We'll talk with John today about the so-called right to be forgotten

and some newspapers and publications across the United States that are adopting such a policy.

John, thanks so much for joining us.

Hi, Scott.

Talking today about a story I saw earlier in the year, and apparently it's what I call it a

trend, but it is developing out there.

A right to be forgotten policy in journalism.

The Chicago Sun Times has a new policy, so does the Boston Globe, the plain dealer in

Cleveland, the Atlanta Journal Constitution. What is a right to be forgotten policy?

Scott, I want to start off by saying there's no such thing as a right to be forgotten. This is the kind of

rights talk that we can sink into where everything is a right and so forth. But there is a

notion here, an important idea here worth talking about, which is the desire for people to have

information removed or attempted to have removed from the internet. And it can be maybe inaccurate information. It can be things they

just don't like about themselves, perhaps. And so there's a response to this, both at the government

level, around the world, and also at an individual level, maybe with an individual publication,

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