My opinion of whistleblowers is that anybody who bravely reveals injustice to the public
deserves praise. Among these is Professor Matthew Woessner, who recently
exposed a "wellness" program at Penn State that he felt was degrading
and forced students to reveal personal information. Huffington Post
journalist Robert Moranto recently provided an interesting approach to
looking at whistleblowers, dividing them into four (perhaps sterotypical
and over-generalizing) groups. These are bureaucrats who reveal
information to the public about financial waste, "megalomaniacs" who
"feel that only they know the truth," "Machiavellian infighters" like
those who exposed Nixon's scandal, and "cornered whistleblowers" who
choose to obey the law even when their bosses try to tell them to break
it. I don't think these archetypes are to be taken that seriously, but
this article still offered an interesting perspective on whistleblowers.
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