Singer M.I.A. posts secretly recorded audio excerpts from reporter’s interview

Still irked about The New York Times profile Lynn Hirschberg wrote about her, singer M.I.A. posted two audio recordings from the interview. Hirschberg didn’t know the singer was recorded the conversations. Over the weekend, M.I.A. also tweeted Hirschberg’s cell phone number. “The duel between reporter and source has spooked the journalism world, reminding writers that, thanks to Twitter and Facebook and other online sources, they may no longer have the final word,” reports The New York …

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