Categories: OLD Media Moves

Hiding notes from the cleaning lady

Former BusinessWeek reporter Gary Weiss, the author of “Wall Street vs. America,” noted on his blog Wednesday that he once hid his notes for a story because he didn’t want a cleaning lady to find them after he left the office for the day.

He thought he was being paranoid until the disclosure in the New York Times today that Hewlett-Packard considered putting spies in newsrooms in the form of cleaning staff.

Weiss wrote, “So I guess there is nothing wrong with a little paranoia after all.

“Loathsome as Hewlett-Packard’s conduct surely was, I’m having a little trouble trying to figure out if it broke any laws. I hope not. If corporate boorishness and stupidity were against the law, the penal system would break down under the strain, and we can’t have that.”

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