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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
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.
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Why? Burkett asked Mapes for Lockhart's phone number, and she gave it to him? That's not much more than an act of courtesy. He's giving her a scoop, and she's supposed to decline to give him a phone number?
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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.
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If Mapes did this multiple times, I would quite agree. I don't know anything about her. Vlasto appeared to be pushing the envelope quite intentionally.
