Byline: Andrew Alexander; 2010-05-02; The Washington Post; pages A15
Report: Undercover Journalism Debated
Tags: Gerald Martineau, John Hinckley, mental asylum, photographer
Article Links"News organizations often struggle with where to draw the liine on privacy and whether to comply with prohibitions that can be excessively restrictive. Sometimes, they consciously violate the rules -- explicit or implied -- for the public good. Several years ago {Michel) duCille visited a patient treatment center with cameras hidden in a gym bag to document substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army Medica Center . . . "
Description:Ombudsman for the Washington Posts asks if a Post photographer crossed the line in entering a mental institution to take a present-day photographer of the man who shot President Reagan in 1981.
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