By Allyce Bess
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Published on 5/6/2004
Excerpt:
Al Tompkins, a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, cautioned news sites to be careful.
“Technology advances faster than our ability to ethically deal with it,” he said. “It’s so much better to think of this on the front end than the back end, because you can cause great harm. … The only thing you’re trading on, really, is your reputation. That’s your currency; that’s all you’ve got.”
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