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Hackwatch: Don't Cross Paul Staines

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 00:19 Written by Jonathan Walker

I'm one of those people who think it doesn't matter very much whether journalists work for someone else, or are self employed. And it doesn't matter whether their stuff appears in print, on the web, or both.

In other words, in the "are bloggers journalists?" debate, I say yes.

So as one hack to another hack, I look at Paul Staines' decision to out one of his sources - apparently as revenge for the source giving him a story that turned out to be wrong - and say: "What the hell?"

(This is the polite version of this post).

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Guido Fawkes, June 17, 2009

I knew some idiot would say this. He wasn't a source, he was a disinformant. His was a deliberate attempt to embarrass me and/or Purnell at a critical moment. It was pre-meditated as should have been clear from my explanation as to the background. He went to some effort to hide his identity, I went to some effort to discover who deliberately set out to mislead me.

The story didn't turn out to be wrong. It was a contrived lie.

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