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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica?
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To: BlueCrab who wrote (11163)3/17/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (2) of 20981
 
>>One of the many appalling spawn of the Clinton Sexcapades is the media's apparently total lack of concern for verification.

Actually many media critics have responded to that charge and found that while there have been some instances of that in this Clinton scandal, it has not been anything out of the ordinary when compared to past scandals. Some have cited Watergate as the point where journalistic standards were loosened.

Indeed, many stories cite "unnamed" sources but that does not mean those sources or their stories have not been verified.

During that period when the WH was decrying leaks from the IC, the editor of Newsweek was asked about whether those Grand Jury leaks had come from the IC or his office as the WH had claimed and he said that they did not. He also stated that he would not say where they came from.

Let's face it, the media has to know where all the leaks are coming from and I'd bet they'd have reported it if the IC or his office were indeed the sources.

We later learned that those leaks most likely came from agents of the President just like the leak of his deposition last week - just about every media pundit not connected to the WH has agreed to that. Yet today Clinton was again acting like a martyr saying that he couldn't talk while others did things like illegally leaking his deposition!
President as victim.

Chutzpah to the max.
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