Just a warning... if you attend a municipal or school
district meeting and sign up to keep informed about issues electronically, Post-Star managing editor Ken Tingley has issued a fiat that your
private email address becomes public information. He won’t say for what purpose
his paper wants your private email address, what public interests this serves or what right he has to information you're not choosing to give to him but we’re supposed to just trust him.
And if the government entity tries to protect your private
information – not the contact information of public officials, but that of
private, law-abiding citizens – they will be the ones denounced.
What a fantastic way to encourage the public to engage in
civic issues.
Or maybe the corporate daily wants people to not be
proactive and to just swallow their interpretation of events uncritically.
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