{"id":307,"date":"2007-06-27T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/06\/27\/the-whole-world-is-watching\/"},"modified":"2007-06-27T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T14:51:14","slug":"the-whole-world-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/2007\/06\/27\/the-whole-world-is-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whole World Is Watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/nesson\/blog\/wp-content\/friedman.jpg' alt='' \/><em><br \/>\nBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN<br \/>\nPublished: June 27, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, I was catching a plane at Boston\u2019s Logan airport and went to buy some magazines for the flight. As I approached the cash register, a woman coming from another direction got there just behind me \u2014 I thought. But when I put my money down to pay, the woman said in a very loud voice: \u201cExcuse me! I was here first!\u201d And then she fixed me with a piercing stare that said: \u201cI know who you are.\u201d I said I was very sorry, even though I was clearly there first.<\/p>\n<p>If that happened today, I would have had a very different reaction. I would have said: \u201cMiss, I\u2019m so sorry. I am entirely in the wrong. Please, go ahead. And can I buy your magazines for you? May I buy your lunch? Can I shine your shoes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because I\u2019d be thinking there is some chance this woman has a blog or a camera in her cellphone and could, if she so chose, tell the whole world about our encounter \u2014 entirely from her perspective \u2014 and my utterly rude, boorish, arrogant, thinks-he-can-butt-in-line behavior. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>When everyone has a blog, a MySpace page or Facebook entry, everyone is a publisher. When everyone has a cellphone with a camera in it, everyone is a paparazzo. When everyone can upload video on YouTube, everyone is filmmaker. When everyone is a publisher, paparazzo or filmmaker, everyone else is a public figure. We\u2019re all public figures now. The blogosphere has made the global discussion so much richer \u2014 and each of us so much more transparent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>poor friedman. in a world he sees upon us he acts not himself but as obsequeous craven in fear of another&#8217;s point of view. this is not the lesson to be learned. the lesson is respect for self and others, and learn to live *your* life in the open.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: June 27, 2007 Three years ago, I was catching a plane at Boston\u2019s Logan airport and went to buy some magazines for the flight. As I approached the cash register, a woman coming from another direction got there just behind me \u2014 I thought. But when I put my money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","p1","y2007","m06","d27","h04"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/nesson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}