Posted on 08/19/2012 7:45:22 PM PDT by middlegeorgian
We were candid about the sourcing on that, as you mentioned, Howie, and basically say to our readers, Look, folks dont want to put their names [on] the charges, Martin said. If you dont want to read Politico, thats fine. But that is a conversation happening in the political community. We as reporter want to capture that conversation. The challenge for us is trying to do so in a way that you can get it in print, but you respect people who dont want to have their names used, its a question of do you not report whats happening right now in the political operative community or do it in a way that you have to do a lot of blind quotes? We choose the chose the latter, because its such a hot issue going on right now.
Compliance is not an issue, you lame-ass no-source rumor-quoting fact-free Obama-worshiping hack.
“I give myself permission to make sh** up.” would have saved a lot of this waste of skin’s breath.
The left wing Washington Post destroyed a Republican administration and changed history using an unnamed source. The Left is not going to drop this play from its playbook anytime soon. The Left has never been constrained by “bourgeois’ ethics.
These sources don’t exist. They simply fabricate quotes that support their agenda. Journalism is dead.
If the journolists had any gumption, they’d refuse to print unsourced stories. That might hurt for a while but they’d be money ahead in the long run. And gain a bunch of respect in the process.
Don’t post their crap here and no one has to be aware of it!
Maybe you ought to go there and not come back!
The story is linked to The Daily Caller, the same website that exposed these journOlisters. I’ve never posted anything linking to Politico.
Don’t know who Politico is and no I don’t want to read them.
All you have to know is these people don’t think like rest of us.
Politico is the new definition of the ultimate dream when it comes to liberal journalism. The creators who came from WaPo have always wanted to make up their own version of the news and even their own news that they could print as if it were real.
Meaning.............We can lie and make up sh##
Whenever Team Romney had rumors they wanted to start about other candidates,
Jonathan Martin has been their go-to guy to get those rumors in writing in front of a national audience.
Martin knows that the proliferation of nattering Beltway nabobs means you can get an anonymous quote to emphasize exactly however you plan to skew your story. It's calculated mendacity in the guise of the 1st Amendment.
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