The Agenda: Part Deux

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Look up the definition of "source" if it's too complicated for you.

Well it's good to have someone like you on the internet to provide us poor uneducated types with the benefit of your knowledge and experience. And in a non-patronising way too.

But perhaps you could help me. In court if a journalist is required to reveal his or her source, do they:

a) say the name of the person who told them the story, or
b) say the name of someone else

If your fanciful story is true and Liverpool released a story about another teams interest in one of their players, just to embarrass an opposition manager then as far as I'm concerned they are the source of the story.

You would have been more believable if you just stuck with wink, wink, nudge, nudge policy of dropping hints about Mancini giving the story to the press direct.

Anyway, thanks for the journalism lesson. I hope you can tell just how much I value it.

You NEVER reveal a source. True journalists go to prison for this belief.

 

[Chris in London]

Look up the definition of "source" if it's too complicated for you.

Well it's good to have someone like you on the internet to provide us poor uneducated types with the benefit of your knowledge and experience. And in a non-patronising way too.

But perhaps you could help me. In court if a journalist is required to reveal his or her source, do they:

a) say the name of the person who told them the story, or
b) say the name of someone else

If your fanciful story is true and Liverpool released a story about another teams interest in one of their players, just to embarrass an opposition manager then as far as I'm concerned they are the source of the story.

You would have been more believable if you just stuck with wink, wink, nudge, nudge policy of dropping hints about Mancini giving the story to the press direct.

Anyway, thanks for the journalism lesson. I hope you can tell just how much I value it.

You NEVER reveal a source. True journalists go to prison for this belief.

Tolm, your credibility is stretched far beyond breaking point if we are to take this to mean you regard Lawrenson as a "true journalist"...



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