HOMELESS FOREVER OH GOD WHY

[spectra]

Really, I appreciate the effort and everything but you really couldn't come up with a more creative username than my name? As much as I like seeing it everywhere like it should be I was thinking of something more subtle. Maybe you could have gone for a pun or something, don't we just love puns around here? (Gag me.)

Anyway I don't actually want my name attached to everything I write because what if I need to do something anonymously, you know like release some vital information that I wouldn't necessarily want tracked back to me because some ghouls just can't handle freedom of speech? It's just responsible journalism to make sure everyone knows some necessary facts about their fellow student bodies but nobody here appreciates my sense of integrity. Maybe I should have two accounts, in fact I think you should get on that right away.

If you want I could write that application for you though, I mean I've only been here a few days and I already know everything there is to know about that ghoul. It was simple really, I mean if monsters don't want me to know about them they should really not leave their diaries in public places like underneath their mattresses.

Comments

[cleo_de_nile]

I don't think that integrity and a respect for privacy should be mutually exclusive.

[spectra]

Yes well you see I have plenty respect for privacy it's just that my duty to inform everybody about what really goes on in the campus we all share comes first. The monsters deserve to be informed.

[abbeybominable]

Is not straightforward to have two accounts. Also, is waste of keystrokes, making mun log in and out. One account is good.

[cleo_de_nile]

That would be all well and good if you actually investigated your claims before making assumptions.

[spectra]

Please, everything I publish comes directly from the source. It's not my fault if you have all your drama in public.

[spectra]

Really it's more of a waste of mouse clicks since she uses that LJ-login thing, which conveniently makes my job a whole lot easier since it saves all her passwords and I don't have to hack her accounts.

[abbeybominable]

Waste is waste. Why you need to hack accounts anyway? You are not even in game to blab secrets.

[blessed_demon]

Yes how dare they expect their rooms to be private.

[He is of course, being sarcastic.]

[spectra]

Well someone has to keep track of all this amazing dirt pertinent information. I mean really the mods of her other games should thank me for uncovering all this information these other ghouls aren't sharing, you know, big stuff people should really know about. For instance that normie boy everyone thinks is soooo precious? He killed a bunch of people, don't you think people have a right to know they're speaking to a homicidal maniac?

[Eee, Monster High!]

[truthaftertheend]

Personally, I'd think someone with journalistic integrity, a real supporter of freedom of speech, would be willing to sign her name to everything she writes. I do -- anyone can look up everything I write, my credentials, my listed biases and my blogger's license.

Well, I take that back. Someone writing in a dictatorship who has to fear for her safety might want to choose an alias. I know some of my sources have used them now that I'm loosely affiliated with a resistance to a galactic empire. Considering I'm living in the hub of Revolution Central Co-op, I don't think it matters for me.

But if you don't want to stand by what you write, then maybe serious journalism isn't for you.

[spectra]

I know. So unreasonable.

[abbeybominable]

But how will they know when they do not have access to Ghostly Gossip? Is important for people to know such things, but probably mods know.

What normie?

[blessed_demon]

You write for some sort of paper I imagine? I wonder how this headline would sound, "Journalist commits multiple acts of theft and other crimes."

[spectra]

Yes well I would love to be able to attach my name to everything I publish because I absolutely stand by everything I report but as terrible as it is to admit my personal safety has been threatened multiple times by fellow student bodies even though everything I report is accurate and necessary information. I know, right? So barbaric. Not that it matters since I'm already dead and all... In the interests of making sure I'm still able to inform my fellow monsters I sometimes do require anonymity.

[spectra]

Oh please, I've never stolen anything.

[truthaftertheend]

Right. I remember what it was like in high school.

[spectra]

Hm that's a good point, maybe I should sign them all up for my daily newsletter. They can get it straight in their inbox first thing in the mourning.

Some normie boy I'm sharing headspace with, you wouldn't know him. He's kind of cute actually but I have a reliable source that says he's batting for the other team... so sad.

typos x-x

[blessed_demon]

Hacking however is also cause for legal action. If the claims turn out to be falsehoods? You would be liable for slander.

[spectra]

Actually since it's written it would be libel, if anything I reported were untrue, which it isn't.

[spectra]

It's murder, really. I persevere nonetheless.

[blessed_demon]

Also do you consider the situation from the perspective of the person you're writing about?

[spectra]

Why?

[truthaftertheend]

Really?

[cleo_de_nile]

The answer to that would be no, never.

[blessed_demon]

Suppose you report on an event that happened to someone in the distant past but they have changed since then. Yet they'll be judged based on their past rather than the person they are now.

Or maybe you report based on just one bad day.