More MSM Fraud
Clearly, the network news folks need a remedial course on conducting intelligence gathering operations…either that, or they need to get out of the spy business.
Apparently, a reporter for NBC attempted to go undercover to secretly record attendees at the DefCon security conference, and apparently did so even after having been asked when she arrived if she wanted a press pass, or to review the rules and regs of the conference for press. She refused both, then excused herself to go to the bathroom and set up a pinhole camera in her purse, which she was later seen “panning…around the room.”
Nothing like a little subtlety to help you blend into the background, eh? Full story here:
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005078.html
Regardless of your opinion of such events, the reporter clearly broke the rules here, and did so in a pretty obvious way. The reporter got off pretty easy with just the humiliating escort out (which you can see in the video link in the above story).
And now that I think about it…wasn’t it NBC’s Dateline that was sued for fraud relating to their show about exploding GM pickup trucks. Oh yes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_fraud#.22Waiting_to_Explode.22.2C_Dateline_NBC_.281992.29
Always good to see when people learn their lesson.
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