Modern Journalism: Fact or Fiction or Something Quite New
September 21, 2018
I read the information on this New York Times’ Web page. The intent is to explain how the NYT can learn a “secret” from a helpful reader. I noted this statement:
Each tip, be it from a submission or from a source, is rigorously vetted and probed.”
I find that interesting. I wonder how the anonymous editorial about the “soft” revolt within President Donald Trump’s staff was verified.
Probably not important. “Real” journalists do not have to reveal sources when a secret tip is rigorously vetted and probed.
From my vantage point in Harrod’s Creek, where real journalism is embodied in the local newspaper, the difference between reality and fiction is blurred. It is not thinking here; it is bourbon that does the trick.
Stephen E Arnold, September 21, 2018
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You are either not very intelligent or really disingenuous. From the page of the op ed itself ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html ):
“We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure.”
So the NYT knows who it is. And that is vetting and probing is it not?
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