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Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once said “Sunshine is the best disinfectant,” and that’s more true than ever today. Think of the blogosphere as millions of intelligent agents, all of whom are busy redirecting sunshine to where its needed most.
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IN PURSUIT OF TRANSPARENCY
It is an irony that any member-founded organization appears not to practice transparency and openness. Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Would not a policy of transparency and openness be helpful at a time of transition and change for an organization such as Organization?

We no longer live in the age when rumors were heard only by journalists, and those journalists decided whether to pass them along to the public. The public is in on this rumor, and they deserve to be served by professional journalists who are capable of debunking or confirming it.
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Part of this post is about asking the question, should anyone blog rumors and expose them to the light of day? I found this blog entry at Common Sense Journalism a nice balance.

Journalism trades on its credibility, and when you publish something that is unconfirmed, you are playing with that credibility. No matter what the medium, you are a newspaper reporter, and the readers in the paper and the readers of this blog will view you as such, first, foremost, and rarely as anything else. …

Newspapers are too important to let anyone get away with lowering the standards that protect its utility.

I’d like to think that any organization and the membership is too important to let anyone get away with allowing rumors to go unchallenged.

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