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This sort of formulation is extremely common in all kinds of news reporting. Journalists frequently have recourse to anonymous sources - so frequent that there
by tragic 9y ago
This sort of formulation is extremely common in all kinds of news reporting. Journalists frequently have recourse to anonymous sources - so frequent that there are strong journalistic ethical injunctions against exposing such sources.
Deep Throat was 'a person familiar with the matter'.
- bob_theslob646 9y ago>so frequent that there are strong journalistic ethical injunctions against exposing such sources. Ethical injuctions? Lol, yeah if maybe the industry was not based off of advertising as a primary source of revenue. The way that it currently stands getting those clicks/eyeballe is way more important than ethics. Journalism is dead in the United States.
- tragic 9y agoI am not saying that journalism is ethical 'in general', but that among journalists there is a strong taboo against revealing sources. Whether we compare that to the omertà code of the Mafia or the Hippocratic oath is a different matter.