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To: MrLucky who wrote (372000)	7/8/2010 1:21:49 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793955

I've heard a different take on the Rolling Stones Hastings/McChrystal article from several journalists, which I pass along fwiw: that's it's normal for journalists to be given access to a bunch of off-the-cuff and background info as well as for-attribution quotes. A journalist is expected not to stick background trash talk into quotes in the first page of the article to spice it up. He is expected to convey the sense in a more responsible fashion. The reporters mourned that Hastings had broken the ground rules (whatever he now claims) in a way that is going to hurt every journalist's access from now on.