17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 4:09 PM -0700 6/15/97, Tim May wrote:
One way they buy people--very reminiscent of the methods used to recruit spies--is to feed reporters with information they can't get anywhere else, and swear them to secrecy. This ties them up in complicated webs of trust, mistrust, and deceit, and makes the reporters more dependent on them for future stories.
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