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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DMaA who wrote (11151)	3/17/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: BlueCrab	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 20981

I worked as a stringer in high school. Great job for a kid; I learned a lot. One of the things I learned was that verification was crucial to any news story - if it isn't verified, it isn't a story. One of the many appalling spawn of the Clinton Sexcapades is the media's apparently total lack of concern for verification. News (we're not talking opinion) reportage has become rumor central, with no regard for verification. In such an environment, spin is child's play and reporting is controlled by volume and sex appeal. <<Maybe the press is withdrawing the pass>> My concern is that "the pass" is not all that's being withdrawn. Can you spell "credibility"? I thought you could...