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anybody remember this>?
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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
You know, I had thought that Lockhart's "why don't you ask a journalist how often this happens" answer was a McClellanesque* dodge, but now that you bring this up and after reading the charges against ABC News producer Chris Vlasto on Atrios I'm wondering if Lockhart was really making a larger point, that this sort of stuff goes on often and it's really the journalists that should answer for it.
Tough time to be a newsie...makes one yearn for the simple innocence of the Jayson Blair days.
* second McClellan ref of the day. I think I may have a crush.
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There has to be an important difference between these guys talking to each other and passing tips and leads, and what they put in the stories they run. The former doesn't bother me a bit. It's their currency. It's the kind of stories Vlasto was running that crosses way over the line.
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