$10,000 bounty for journalist emails

#1

American journalists are targets in a way they have never experienced before.

The Project Veritas leader announced he will give $10,000 to anyone who brings him evidence of “corruption, malfeasance and wrongdoing” in the press.
“If you have hidden audio recordings, videotapes or documents inside of a newsroom or media institution, and the material is good enough, I will pay you $10,000,” Mr. O'Keefe says in the video set to be released on Thursday.

I would love to get every journalist using 2-factor logins and every newsroom doing phishing pen-testing. I'm beginning to think we need an organized campaign to do it. Because the big hack is coming, I just know it.

An easy start: should we organize everyone here to tweet under a particular hashtag on the same day?

#2

Someone, perhaps it was Bruce Schneier, suggested that mass use of encryption even (and especially) for mundane communications would create such a wide field that targeting journalists and other sources would become much more difficult to do. I don't know how many people read this forum, but I suspect it's not enough to create a real distraction. As a post script, I'm not a reporter and I don't use Twitter.

#3

James O'Keefe is a right-wing hack/tool and a sorry excuse for a journalist, in my opinion. I don't take him seriously after he deliberately misrepresented ACORN in a heavily edited video that led to the organization being defunded on a Bill of Attainder, and ultimately dismantled unjustly. ACORN was never found guilty of any wrongdoing. Then he attempted to orchestrate a socially engineered hack of Senator Mary Landrieu's office (Louisiana) but got caught and arrested along with two other friends. Nothing credible about this guy.

#4

Anyone who does not follow, adhere or make themselves accountable to a code of ethics is not a journalist, and shouldn't be called one.

Doctors who do not follow a code of conduct are called quacks. What name can we come up for rule breakers in news media?

Fakers?

#5

O'Keefe's trolling journos, right? Shouldn't he be trolled back? Shouldn't a bunch of really juicy fake journos' e-mails be provided (with source's complicity), to claim that USD10K, then exposed as a fraud? Kind of like those folks who get really stupid articles published in "peer-reviews" journals, or the recent case of a made-up person being offered the position of editor at many of those journals ...