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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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When someone commits a crime, should we know who they are?

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0:00.0	This is an On the Media podcast extra. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:04.8	Journalism at its core has always been a matter of who, what, when, where, why, perhaps
0:10.7	most particularly with crime reporting, where journalists and reader alike are impelled
0:16.7	following the what happened to discover who the victim is and who done it.
0:23.5	It is an immutable principle of news coverage, or is it?
0:28.5	Across Europe, and now sometimes here, news organizations are often withholding the who.
0:34.3	The so-called right to be forgotten established seven years ago in a Spanish court case
0:40.1	to prevent online searches from permanently unearthed an individual's worst moment,
0:45.3	has in some cases been expanded to immediately protect criminals and alleged criminals
0:50.6	from media shaming. In other cases, it has been flipped to the society's right
0:56.6	who never offer criminals notoriety in the first place. Romaine Smith Fullerton is a journalism
1:03.2	professor at the University of Western Ontario. She and Duquesne University Journalism
1:08.9	Professor Maggie Jones Patterson are authors of Murder in Our Mids,
1:14.2	comparing crime coverage ethics in an age of globalized news.
1:18.7	Hey, welcome to OTM.
1:20.3	Thank you.
1:20.8	Thank you.
1:22.0	As I understand it, you guys kind of blundered upon this topic on a trip with students.
1:29.4	Maggie, can you tell me about that?
1:31.3	Sure.
1:32.5	This was in 2009, and I was taking some students on a tour of newsrooms in Europe.
1:40.0	And when we were in the Netherlands, we visited A&P, their national news service, which would be the counterpart to the Associated Press in this country.
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