CBC Journalists Asked to Avoid Adding Contacts in Facebook

Plus, we don’t have to hear Carol Lewis.

I would love to watch it live on WCSN, but their blackout policy prohibits me from viewing it from my ISP.

I was shocked to hear CBC journalists now has a formal “Facebook Policy” for their employees.

I like Facebook and LinkedIn, as it is a great tool for social networking and bookmarking. You can freely connect to me as your friend in Facebook, or link to me in LinkedIn.

In this article, www.insidethecbc.com/facebookpolicy, they quote:

It may compromise your work by letting friends see other friends on your network,” the policy document says. It may also not be in your interest to identify yourself as a ‘friend’ of a source on their network.”

In the context of basic reporting, you do not want one source to ’see’ what another source says, nor do you want your private ‘conversation’ with a source becoming public. Adding sources as ‘friends’ makes the management of this much trickier.”

What are your thoughts?