I can remember the BBC explaining how to break into a house using a credit card. I remember them explaining how to hide semtex from sniffer dogs using clingfilm. Now the full details of the latest bombing plot are revealed. Surely this knowledge is only of use to the budding criminal? Why expose it?
2006-11-06 18:49:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I agree. The Press are extremely irresponsible and this kind of information should not be published. There are plenty of nuts out there just itching for the knowledge of how to make a bomb....one of these people will finish us off with poison in the water system or one of Dhiren Barot's despicable schemes.
2006-11-06 23:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by simon2blues 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The job of the news is to inform. If the methods you described were used by people, it is the duty of the media to report them. Journalists simply anticipate the questions and try to answer them. It's no different than movies that show creative ways to rob banks, kidnap people or break into homes.
2006-11-06 20:07:27 · answer #2 · answered by Come on in, the water's lovely 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm in total agreement with you! By sharing this information with the public, surely they are only giving ammunition to a whole new generation of the dispossessed in society.
2006-11-07 02:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I pretty much agree with mynameisdumbnuts and I'd like to add that the reason they are not worried about reporting it is because the police are probably wise to these things. Don't worry, if it was something they really didn't want you to know they wouldn't blab about it (e.g. area 51).
2006-11-06 20:18:13 · answer #4 · answered by Luvfactory 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋