Talking to the Press Considered Harmful

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Tue Oct 9 19:04:52 PDT 2001


At 06:31 PM 10/9/01 -0700, David Honig wrote:
>This agreement isn't enforcable, is it?  Even if it were, by the time
>you've sued them for
>damage to your rep for misquoting, its too late.

Agreements similar to this that sources make with media organizations have 
been held by courts to be enforceable, yes. I suspect this one would be too.

Too late? How about damages.

>It would be better for Tim (etc) to do a writeup, post it, and point
>to it.  Then others could find the original and compare reporters'

No, reporters will want to ask questions on the phone, or, more rarely, in 
person for audio or video taping. (There are many good reasons for this.) 
An essay by Tim isn't good enough for those reasons and also, frankly, for 
more parochial reasons of "exclusivity."

-Declan





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