[privacy] CCTV 'Mission Creep' again.

[Kevin McAleavey]

NOW we've got an interesting story!   :)

Long before I got into all this computer hocus-pocus, spent my wasted youth in journalism - print, radio and television. Was even an anchor at a TV station in Poughkeepsie, NY. So been there, know how editors and their pesky blue pencils can be and how "revisionism is our credo" when it comes to stories, more information in, phone calls to the editor from angry authorities demanding "corrections," yada yada. Heh.

But NOW we've got an interesting story if the beeb published one thing and then revised it without an "editor's note" saying "corrects this specific detail" or other "marginal thinking." Be quite interested indeed though if the "mission creep" is for real. We're supposed to be spotting terrorists, not village idjits.  (grin)

At 10:50 AM 8/13/07, you wrote:
>Kevin McAleavey wrote:
>>  Even though possession of a sense of humour is a crime, I'm trying to divine where the incident had anything to do with "candid camera" as opposed to "an observant officer in the vicinity." Is there something which ties this story to CCTV abuse?
>
>When I posted the link (about 10am BST) the story claimed the guy had
>been spotted on CCTV and then warned by 'wardens'. Looking again I see
>the BBC have updated it (11:45 BST) and removed all mention of CCTV.
>
>Jim.
>
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