Gullible Journalists
Harmon Seaver
hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Mon Feb 3 07:39:51 PST 2003
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:13:16AM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:31:35AM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > I'm exagerating for effect here of course...there's possibly not as much
> > conscious decision making, and supposedly this kind of list-making happens
> > for much quieter, "insider" stuff (not smart bomb footage). But clearly,
> > there's got to be SOMETHING like this happening.
>
> You're not very far off the mark. Be too critical and lose your sources.
> Happens at the White House and every federal agency, and is one of the
> tragedies of modern political journalism. I've written about this before
> in the context of the Justice Department antitrust suit.
>
> "Washington Babylon" is a good book that hits on this topic, I recall.
>
> -Declan
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