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Does the media have the right to perform sting operations against politicians??

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/does-the-media-have-the-right-to-perform-sting-operations-against-politicians.35234/

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freakanomics Original post #1
Aug 29, 2006 at 9:25 PM
Well ppl, i have seen so many politicians blaming the media for snooping in on their private businessess. Do u support them?
blueshift
Aug 29, 2006 at 10:05 PM
ofcourse.
Yamaraj
Yamaraj #3
Aug 29, 2006 at 11:00 PM
If only they went after all the big fishes. But they won't, ever! They're mutually
dependent on each other. Both the politicians and mass media should be eliminated.
mediator
Aug 29, 2006 at 11:13 PM
Ofcors....it brings the real faces of these pigs to public. Neways politicians and police are really scared of media.........so yeah...media shud do sting on mass scale ......and even on public request from low to top hierarchy!!
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SE> #5
Aug 30, 2006 at 8:50 PM
I have just one sentence-"Politics is one stinky gutter"
kumarmohit
Aug 30, 2006 at 9:06 PM
For any act to be crime there must be a criminal intention behind it so a sting operation by itself is not wrong but parts of it might be criminal actvity like installation of wiretaps

Recently sime ppl were caught in britain for installing wiretaps on royal family's fone lines Its practically 3 crimes first damage to telecom company property Second breach of human rights of royal family (right to life) and third installing wiretaps on any person of national importance amounts to petty treason - gravest of all.
R
Aug 30, 2006 at 9:39 PM
Sometimes you dont need to think right or wrong but do things in larger interest of the people & society.
sabret00the
Aug 30, 2006 at 11:36 PM
media has the right to expose the bastards
~Phenom~
Aug 30, 2006 at 11:51 PM
yes , they should expose those bastards , media have full right.
xenkatesh
xenkatesh #10
Aug 31, 2006 at 2:37 AM
Then how come their illegal stuffs will come out... Media is the only way... no other option... Those A$$***le are stealing the public money and saying that they belongs to them... We actually have to thank the Media..
Vyasram
Vyasram #11
Aug 31, 2006 at 6:55 AM
absolutely, they sd continue doing this. anyway, what use, those mfers always escape from the law
xenkatesh
xenkatesh #12
Aug 31, 2006 at 7:28 AM
Thats because there are mfers there too... thats the reason they are escaping in the name of BRIBE!!!!! Bribe rules these days man... :(