At 10:59 PM 10/9/01 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
That's always an engineer's problem. :)
Tech may be a partial solution. Tim could tape-record the conversation (or, if there were sufficient market demand, conference in a neutral party to do the recording) and damage the reporter's reputation capital by posting the audio clip if he ends up misquoted.
This obviously requires more effort than he appears willing to spend. But some PR flacks do record conversations with journalists for precisely this reason. (Less so damaging reputation capital, more so obtaining a clarification/editor's note if something goes awry.)
-Declan
At 07:20 PM 10/9/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
Ok. I was trying to use tech to solve a social problem.
Audio recording takes essentially zero resources these days. In Calif, IIRC, he'd have to get permission, but presumably *that's* ok with you reporter-types :-)