Note to US media: Use your heads!

摘要

Recently there was a meeting held by Silicon Valley companies about steps being taken to protect facilities what might be vulnerable to attack by terrorists. Solid State Technology chose not to cover this meeting, and not to report on either any vulnerabilities or the steps being taken to provide safeguards. In case someone hasn't noticed, there is a WAR going on between the US and a dangerous global terrorist network. Publishing details like this seems to us to be supplying potentially damaging information to the enemy. This attitude does not seem to be prevalent in some sectors of the US media. Getting the story, and giving all the details that a reporter can collect, seems to be the order of the day. Getting high ratings or a front page scoop, no matter the consequences, seems to be the attitude of the managers running news operations at major media outlets. Let's look at some examples.