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Yes, AP should produce their Identified Source. It's not like he's a confidential informant or whatever. But as part of the MSM, AP is above mere accountability to the readers. You know them -- the ones who have a "right to know."
MSM Journalism has a generic problem -- Journalism degrees. Back in the olden times, it seems, Reporters came up through the ranks (remember Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter?) from copy boy. Few print reporters had "degrees in journalism." They didn't exist. The few with degrees had English or something similar. Thing in MSM started going to heck in a handbasket when Journalists replaced Reporters. And colleges everywhere started Journalism degree programs (look! It's like Liberal Arts except you don't need a foreign language!)
MSM has a general credibility problem with me dating back to 1968. I was over in Vietnam serving with the Army during Tet. It wasn't until I got back that I found out Uncle Walter Cronkite had declared us at a dead end/quagmired/whatever. I also remember rolling through Camp Schmidt, up in Pleiku, by the press camp (nice facility) where I never saw anyone. And finding out that when Journalists were killed in the field, it was normally a Chinese Nationalist or Japanese film crew member who was the lost journalist. The round-eyes stayed close to the bars an' wimmin down in Saigon/Cholon. Some made obligatory forays out, but their reportage wasn't any more accurate than the Five O'Clock Follies given at MACV.
Comment Posted By Old Analyst On 3.12.2006 @ 12:53
