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2016 Postmortem

exboyfil

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2. Journalists not doing their damn job

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2017, 11:14 AM

Jan 2017

When any leak came out, the first response should be to go to the author for authentication. Without that you have nothing. Note how the Trump tax return was handled. It was vetted with the accountant (who I think should not have answered the questions). The NYT would never have run the story without independent confirmation.

What the leaks were were a bunch of Killian memos breathlessly read as soon as they were posted online without any sort of due diligence. Rather lost his job for a whole lot less.

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