OK, You're an Exec at a major news outlet, and you know something big:

[MineralMan]

You want to leak it out so people will know what it is. Who you gonna call?

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	New York Times
	1 (9%)
	Washington Post
	8 (73%)
	ABC News
	0 (0%)
	CBS News
	0 (0%)
	NBC News
	0 (0%)
	CNN
	1 (9%)
	Fox News
	0 (0%)
	Los Angeles Times
	0 (0%)
	Claude Taylor
	0 (0%)
	Louise Mensch
	1 (9%)
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[Initech]

1. Whichever one pisses Trump off the most!

[zipplewrath]

2. How many more?

How many more posts are you going to make on this topic today?

[we can do it]

5. !

[MineralMan]

10. Well, I don't know, exactly.

It's a pretty big story, though...so...I thought it needed a DU Poll, so we could get at the truth of the matter by voting.

[The Polack MSgt]

3. Depends on what the subject is

Politics - a toss up between WaPo and NYT
Business - probably WSJ or Forbes, unless it was about a Murdoch connected party, then IDK the Economist maybe?

[MFM008]

4. Or

Rachel Maddow......

[onecent]

6. Just what I was going to say.

[marylandblue]

7. Why would a major news org. give their scoop to someone else?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. If I'm an executive at a major cable network,

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I would fire up my BREAKING NEWS chyrons and "leak" it to my own reporters. It would be a ratings and advertising bonanza for my network, so why would I give the story to anybody else? I might leak a little hint to the Washington Post to prime the media pump but I'd save the juicy details for the big story on my network.

The last people on earth I'd leak a big story to would be the likes of Mensch and Taylor, who are either making shit up out of whole cloth to get hits on their blogs, or they're collecting gossip they get from a friend of the brother-in-law of some guy who used to clean the men's room at Langley and found in a waste basket a scrap of paper that looked like a grocery list but it was almost certainly some kind of coded communication that was carelessly discarded, where "pick up milk and cigarettes at the 7-11" really meant "The Supreme Court is issuing articles of impeachment they got from a FISA court grand jury."

[MineralMan]

9. Ding! Ding! Ding! Don Pardo, tell our guest about her fabulous prizes!

Thank you!

[Shell_Seas]

11. I see what you did there.

[MineralMan]

12. That's good, cause if you didn't, it's time for new glasses.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

13. No Palmer Report?

[MineralMan]

14. I only got 10 lines for the poll.

A guy's gotta draw the line somewhere, I think.

[Kaleva]

15. I'd leak it to my own best reporter. Maybe pass some info to WP, NYT, & The Guardian later.

[jmg257]

16. Columbia professor Daniel Richman. If he is too busy leaking for Comey,

then I would call Claude Taylor and tell him all about the transcripts I have, but for some reason didn't think to release my self.

Just maybe we don't want the attention at our news outlet.