Bill Keller, editor of The New York Times , said he called Alan Rusbridger, director The Guardian, and asked if they could talk through some secure means of communication to be assured of not being heard. Apparently he wanted to propose to share the publication of documents of Wikileaks.
The subject was so sensitive that the director of the British newspaper was assumed that the Times had to circumvent encrypted phone-tapping of the CIA, I guess. When Keller told his colleague from The Guardian that it had no "safe means" to it you must sink the most basic outlines of investigative journalism in a deep draft.
English must have thought, in addition to the spies, that their number appear on the bill for the ATT (the telephone company's New York Times), with the breakdown of roaming calls to be audited by the accounting officer on duty in the U.S. daily, which, incidentally, is cutting costs .
Beyond the anecdote, the truth is that, above all, journalists devoted to the events and issues that are involved in justice must surely be spied indirectly.
In our country the issue is more visible, more elemental: If it turns out that a journalist is a police source, a confidant of it, or a citizen accused of a crime, to which has been involved in court the phone conversations you have with these sources will be recorded, of course. The privilege is, at the time, aired from justice. In fact, there. More if the source is the journalist confessed something to be susceptible to crime, it should immediately inform the judge, as it will record the conversation recorded.
media publication of wiretaps legally responsible, it is customary in our country when a newspaper or a television you get summaries, sometimes selfishly filtered.
The Wikileaks police documents, evidence expert, the statements of defendants and telephone records, works in the press with some ease. So that allows the environment to discern what, in their opinion, is publishable or not. This is the case of listeners Gurtel case and the decision of the newspaper El Pais not transcribe those related to personal issues rather sex, any of the accused.
Sometimes one has the suspicion that journalists, judges, police and even confidants, are required for the whole apparatus of justice to function properly, others think that journalists should be encrypted phones, as the editor of The Guardian, for not be spied on and used by their sources, but in general I think a good journalist knows how to interpret events with prudence and professionalism the minefield through which it moves.
When I read that a newspaper editor Levante some officials of the City of Justice of Valencia, have hung posters with his picture, they complain that they did not pass the control systems to sign with the slogan: "This boy engaged in spying on officials, "You see a lot by the City of Justice!" I thought that, apart from the reprehensible attitude of the officials, this writer is legal sources have been encrypted by a time. But I've also come to be reconciled with a profession, the journalist, it must maintain its independence concerned over the use of his sources, as necessary to carry out its mission information.
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