Gun owner map ricochet: Blogger publishes journalists’ personal data
A newspaper published names and addresses of thousands of legal handgun owners, generating widespread criticism. In retaliation, a blogger mapped the names and addresses of the journalists.
The flap over the newspaper that published information about handgun owners in two New York counties has ricocheted back toward the news organization.
Thousands of critics – including some journalism professionals – have weighed in. And at least one blogger has retaliated by publishing the names and addresses of editors and executives at the Journal News, the publication headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., north of New York City and part of the Gannett organization.
Still, the Journal News is not backing down. Editors say they’ll publish information on handgun owners in a third county (Putnam) once county officials have responded to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that resulted in tens of thousands of names and addresses in Westchester and Rockland Counties.
The blogger that published the names and addresses of the newspaper employees looked like a fool on CNN. He said that he depolred the publishing of the handgun owner info – so he decided to do the same thing. He was nothing but a self-hating blogger.