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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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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I understand your point about currency, but when a source is (1) handing you an inflammatory document purporting to indict one candidate and (2) asking for the phone number of the other candidate because he doesn't think candidate 2 has been fighting hard enough, I'd like to think that journalistic ethics would discourage making such a love connection.
The CBS story would have been pretty damning if it were true. Turns out it was based on docs faked by an anti-Bush partisan. I don't understand why you think Vlasto is so much farther over the line than Mapes.
