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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lane3 who wrote (112259)5/2/2005 11:31:18 AM
From: D. Long  Read Replies (1) of 793914
 

I disagree. No news organization wants to credit another news organization. If they can get the information on their own, they report it without the credit. If they include the credit, that means they can't authenticate it but choose to report it anyway because they don't want to miss out

News orgs credit each other all the time. Check the bottom of nearly every print or web news - sources from other news orgs or the wire agencies will be credited. Journalists are pretty open about cadding from each other.

I think that civility requires that you line up your ducks before you charge anyone with anything. Right now there is only suspicion, not evidence. If evidence turns up, then have at it

Its not likely that sort of evidence will "turn up". The US gov doesn't like its satellite intel being aired on the 6 o'clock news. This was a scoop by CBS from someone willing to leak it. Might not get repeated. That doesn't make it false. The reason it isn't being directly reported by other news agencies is probably because they don't have access to CBS' source, or any equivalent connection to the intel. It's a solid and specific enough piece of info for me to credit it as probable. The US Gov seems convinced enough, and we know there are more birds over Iraq than an aviary.

Derek
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