The committee also called on the government to abandon its "inflexible" approach to another part of the bill, which aims to strengthen legal protections for defamatory statements "on a matter of public interest" that are published "responsibly".
So, for example, an environmentalist whistleblower might say: "I like Greenpeace, and I trust them to use my documents in the right spirit". Someone in the German defence ministry might say: "I trust Der Spiegel to publish this responsibly". And so on.
Patricia J. Harned is President of ERC, which recently published Accepting Responsibility Responsibly, a report on how ethical values can guide an organization through crisis.
Please write responsibly.
A reading of The New York Times' handling of the leaks suggests that it published and redacted responsibly.
At present, the common law gives media bodies – and bloggers and others – a defence if they have libelled someone, provided they can show that the relevant article concerned a matter of public interest and was responsibly published.
In 2008, the Johns Hopkins research team published guidelines for responsibly conducting medical research trials with psilocybin and other hallucinogens in humans.
"We trust that the press will behave responsibly and not publish any material that might jeopardise any future criminal proceedings.
The Nutrition Label, which mimics mandatory labels on food products, has five criteria listed under credibility, A site: does not repeatedly publish false content; gathers and presents information responsibly; regularly corrects or clarifies errors; handles the differences between news and opinion responsibly; and avoids deceptive headlines.
Allegations that the full scandal has not been laid bare are a huge setback to international efforts – championed by Barack Obama, the UN, the EU and campaign groups – to stamp out the illicit trade in conflict gold by requiring the world's largest refineries to be independently audited to check that they are sourcing gold responsibly and publishing the findings.
