Ken Silverstein from Harper’s has done some undercover work for a story he’s written on Washington DC’s lobbyists.
As part of his research for the story he posed as a representative of a UK business with interests in Turkmenistan and contacted a few firms.
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I think what Silverstein did was very wrong. Traveling under false colors sets a terrible precedent. What is to prevent someone from doing the same thing to Harpers?
Alice, nothing’s to prevent the same thing from happening to Harpers, if someone thought there was a story worth investigating there. That’s what investigative journalism is all about. And Silverstein is hardly setting a precedent. Journalists have been “traveling under false colors” for as long as there have been journalists. You think people acting corruptly just go around admitting it to the press?