Mayhill Fowler, a citizen journalist for HuffingtonPost's "Off the Bus" project, posted a report that launched the so-called "Bittergate" uproar that nearly derailed Obama's 2008 campaign. The Bittergate of 2012 campaign: "47%-gate."
In getting a later scoop, Fowler said she didn't hide that she was recording ex-President
Clinton as he verbally trashed a Vanity Fair
reporter as "sleazy" and "slimy" and "dishonest" and "a scumbag, while greeting voters in public as he campaigned for his
wife in June 2008. BUT Clinton obviously did not know Fowler was a
HuffPost "citizen journalist." Should she have ID'd herself? (She clearly got a more honest response from Clinton than if he'd known she was a journalist.)
Should
public figures know nowadays that anything said in public -- especially
rants (or racism) -- will be recorded and available forever? Exhibits A (and A1) features a U.S. senator and B features a comedic actor.
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