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Could There be a Deep Throat today? |
| Message Name: |
I believe |
| Date Posted: |
06/01/2005 |
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Okay, so now we have the missing piece of the puzzle--"Deep Throat" was, after all, a disgruntled employee who had been passed over for a job promotion and set out to get even with the Man. Does that discredit him as a news source? In my opinion, no. Drawing form personal experience, some of my best sources have been people with an axe to grind. It takes a perceptive and thoughtful reporter to separate the sour grapes from the jam. But many among the more recent crops of newsroom managers won't even go there. They spend much time with attorneys wringing their hands fretting over what's "safe" to report. A guy like Deep Throat would be instantly discredited and dismissed as waging a personal vendetta. While American journalism was once a fearless enterprise of digging up the goods and following trails of facts no matter they led, today's media world is more defined by the fast, live and slick. Production values control news values, pictures carry more weight than information, and news corporations favor stories that carry little or no risk of litigation. The result is a continuing drift toward irrelevance. Thoughts? |
| Message: |
I believe that their could be. If there is one thing that I still hold on to, it's that journalists are willing to still maintain the confidentiality of their sources. So you may call me an idealist, but yes, I believe their could be.
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