Yeah I also suspect that this was a betrayal of trust and feel conflicting about whether it was justified. I haven’t seen any explicit mention of Sam consenting to sharing it. This could be him high on stimulants going through the worst times of his life, messaging a friend while thinking about other things. Easy to see how you end up saying things with interpretations that you wouldn’t endorse.
It seems like they weren’t friends, only professional acquaintances up until 5 years ago, and then more recently journalist-subject. So it’s a bit disingenuous to say he was ‘talking with a friend’ as though they had anything resembling a DMing relationship within the past 5 years.
In journalism the ethical standard is both parties have to state an acknowledgement of a conversation being off the record before the conversation occurs.
I’ve had some people say to me “I’d like all future conversations with you to be off the record/confidential unless we agree otherwise”. I agreed to this.
Yeah I also suspect that this was a betrayal of trust and feel conflicting about whether it was justified. I haven’t seen any explicit mention of Sam consenting to sharing it. This could be him high on stimulants going through the worst times of his life, messaging a friend while thinking about other things. Easy to see how you end up saying things with interpretations that you wouldn’t endorse.
It seems like they weren’t friends, only professional acquaintances up until 5 years ago, and then more recently journalist-subject. So it’s a bit disingenuous to say he was ‘talking with a friend’ as though they had anything resembling a DMing relationship within the past 5 years.
In journalism the ethical standard is both parties have to state an acknowledgement of a conversation being off the record before the conversation occurs.
That must make having a journalist as a friend pretty tedious, if every conversation has to start with “confirming that we’re off the record? yes”
(I have several journalist friends and I don’t do this, and now I’m wondering if I should start)
I’ve had some people say to me “I’d like all future conversations with you to be off the record/confidential unless we agree otherwise”. I agreed to this.