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Thank you, I believe Leibovich's response provides the relevant context though.
by mtbcoder 10y ago
Thank you, I believe Leibovich's response provides the relevant context though.
- 75j 10y agoNYT links are all paywalled for me, but I can't envision any possible excuse for what he did. I understand that "access" is a tricky problem and involves some moral grey area, but sending articles ahead of time for revision and "vetoing", and asking for permission to use a quote... those both strike me as a clear failure in journalistic ethics.
- hga 10y agoas a clear failure in journalistic ethics To quote Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, "Just think of the media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense."
- maxerickson 10y agoSean Hannity, Democrat operative.
- maxerickson 10y agoSo should journalists simply never agree to have conversations off the record? I think there are big problems with the way access and coverage are mixed up together and traded on, but I'm pretty comfortable with a journalist agreeing not to publish remarks made during a conversation and then later asking to publish some of them.