High dudgeon
Media folk can track the latest on the Stevie Cameron affair
here and
here. [ADDENDUM 16:08pm: And the same reporter has just posted
another interesting blurb here.] Cameron is the investigative journo accused of being a police informant, who was denounced by the Canadian Association of Journalists back in March when the allegation was made public. See
also here.
Once members began to talk again about Cameron, I rejoined the Canadian Association of Journalists so that I could gripe. Am not impressed by the latest CAJ press release. Would like to see new blood on the board (but have no interest in dragging my own bones out to the Winnipeg annual conference -- few starving freelancers have that sort of time). Unlike some, however, I don't care how Stevie Cameron is reacting to all this. I don't intend to be mean when I say this -- but we must separate the personal from the professional. I'm sure bad people feel terrible when they get caught -- so what? Doesn't stop us reporters from wanting to expose the truth. (And no, I don't know "the truth" with Stevie Cameron.) But the CAJ issue is being reinforced for me as more and more one of unconscionably horrid process (and problematic vision, leadership, and communications policy). It's not a debate that should focus on Stevie's "feelings."