Re: [Leica] So much BS

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

>>Heh heh. Nice try. As I said to you privately, tell that to Woodward and
Bernstein!<<

As I recall, Woodward and Bernstein used "unquotable" source to confirm what
their quotable sources told them. Unlike many of the "journalists" today who
go directly to print with the "unquotable."

Bryan


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Johnston" <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:19 AM
Subject: [Leica] So much BS


> >>>Sorry, Mike, but that is so much BS.  By quoting "unquotable"
> sources, you set yourself up to automatically win, as your sources are
> beyond
> confirmation or refutation.  It's not fair and it's not tolerable in
> honest
> disputation<<<
>
>
> Heh heh. Nice try. As I said to you privately, tell that to Woodward and
> Bernstein!
>
> I call people as a journalist. (This isn't ego. I'm a magazine editor.
> People want to know if they're talking to me as an individual, or
> because I'm doing research for an article.) I ask them if the
> conversation is on the record (attributable quotes) or off the record
> (unattributed content only). If they say "off the record," I'm not
> goingto go blathering their names on the internet just to win an
> argument with you.
>
> This is _perfectly_ SOP for any journalist, and anybody who's even taken
> a Journalism 101 course will tell you. But nice try!
>
> --Mike
>
>