A front-page Times news article about the Koch brothers reports, "Relations with the news media could be fractious: If Koch Industries did not like an article, its public-relations team was in the habit of posting email exchanges it had with the reporter."
My goodness, posting a reporter's emails! What a hardball tactic! This from a newspaper that has in recent weeks published articles on emails between Michael Lynton and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and on the electronic job application to the Obama campaign of a Washington Post reporter who is imprisoned in Iran. At least Koch is publishing emails that were voluntarily addressed to Koch; the Times is publishing other people's correspondence that was unlawfully or brutally obtained. It's a double standard by which the Times takes the privacy of others lightly while objecting to transparency when it is applied to the newsgathering process.