Aaron Sorkin, among others, has been attacking the media for their reporting of the content of the Sony hacks - including, among other things, "an inappropriate and racially charged exchange" in private email between Sony producer Scott Rudin and Sony exec Amy Pascal. To be clear, I think hacking is wrong, and release of private financial and medical information even worse. But "racially charged" email, though understandably embarrassing to the emailers, surely falls under a newsworthy event that the public might want to know. And, therefore, contra Sorkin, the media are only doing their job in reporting on these emails.
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