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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (30347)	2/18/2004 4:36:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793808

Romenesko - Milbank explains to NPR's Gross how WP handles rumors NPR.org (audio) On Wednesday's "Fresh Air," Terry Gross asked Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank: "So, when there's an allegation about an affair or a personal thing like that, the Washington Post decides to investigate a little and see if there's anything there before deciding whether it's worthy of coverage or not?" MILBANK'S RESPONSE: "Yes, of course. The typical way these rumors wind up in the mainstream is they wind up on the Internet, then they wind up in the British publications, which seem to have a lower standard of accuracy. Then they make it into the American tabloids market, like the New York Post, and eventually it filters into the mainstream. If there's accuracy to the rumor then of course we're going to be covering it. If there's no accuracy to the rumor, most likely we'll do it as we did this week, and that is have our media writer write about everybody else writing about it."