Talking to the Press Considered Harmful

[David Honig]

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 :-)