A journalism ethics question: if the president talks to you off the record, is it OK to quote him as "a source close to the president" or a "source familiar with the president's thinking"?
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Just say John Barron.
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This is a ludicrous. If your job is to speak truth to power you do NOT HIDE when power talks back. You are complicit in a lie of omission when the worlds most powerful person gets to propagandize via the press anonymously. If the president speaks, YOU TELL US. That is your JOB.
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Not how reporting works.
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"Telling us" is not how reporting works? Huh?
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Would you afford the same courtesy to Kim Jong Un, for example, if he called you to dictate some lines for your next column? It seems to me that once anonymity is granted to defer to a powerful source, rather than to protect whistleblowers, a line has been crossed.
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This misrepresents a "planted story" as a "leak". Misleading the public upon request of government officials is propaganda not journalism. Are there no reporters with the intengrity to turn down a "scoop" rather than act as willing propagandists?!
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I thought off the record meant not to be reported at all .... at least it did when Obama was president.
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Just say, "John Barron." Everybody will know who it is.
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