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Takket

(21,528 posts) Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:29 PM Sep 2020

Generic question about journalism

The Atlantic wrote the blockbuster piece on drumpf’s hatred is soldiers.

The story has four sources which will have been confirmed by the writer and his editor.

The story has since been confirmed with senior officials by the AP and also WAPI

my question is, if the sources are a secret, how do the AP and WAPO know who to talk to to confirm them?

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Generic question about journalism (Original Post) Takket Sep 2020 OP

Journalists build up contacts over time. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #1

Reporters may also have sources among additional people at a particular event brooklynite Sep 2020 #3

That, too. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #4

Honestly, I don't know who to trust on stuff like this. I can see trump say that. Hoyt Sep 2020 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,816 posts)

1. Journalists build up contacts over time.

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:42 PM

Sep 2020

So probably the AP and WAPO could make a good guess about who the sources were and contact them separately.

brooklynite

(94,333 posts)

3. Reporters may also have sources among additional people at a particular event

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:44 PM

Sep 2020

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,816 posts)

4. That, too.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:47 PM

Sep 2020

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

2. Honestly, I don't know who to trust on stuff like this. I can see trump say that.

Reply to Takket (Original post)

Thu Sep 3, 2020, 11:43 PM

Sep 2020

Last edited Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:15 AM - Edit history (1)

Heck he has before. But I really want to hear it. I despise him and wouldn’t vote for him if he cured cancer. But, there’s too much “sources said,” etc. I want to see or, at least, hear it.

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