In case you've forgotten, Ashley Alexander Dupre was the woman that N.Y. (former and disgraced) Gov. Eliot Spitzer had an affair with.
She was practically a no-name before the Spitzer sex scandal hit the front pages and became the lead story on many national TV programs.
But then tens of millions of Americans suddenly learned about her--primarily through, of all things, her images and writings on Facebook.
Should Facebook material be fodder for the news media?
Or does a person's social networking Web site qualify as protected private material.
Sticky questions that my friend Doug Fisher recently blogged about. Doug, who works at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication, came across a thought-provocative paper that deals specifically with all this.
Read about it in the headlined link above.
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