MTP: Tom Cotton Schools Chuck Todd About Relying Too Much on Anonymous Sources

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 26, 2017 | Nicholas Fondacaro

[equaviator]

If it's Sunday, it's Meet The Priss!

[TYVets]

a position of responsibility

NBC responsible?

That would be something new for them when it comes to reporting the news.

[Gargantua]

Hereinafter referred to only as,

"Cuck Todd"

LMAO!

[tje]

Poor Todd - He’s not getting nourished these days.

[Kaslin]

Or as Rush calls it. “Meet the Depressed”

[Kaslin]

That’s a good one

[Rockitz]

Schmuck Toad, owned once again... When will this moron learn to give up in the face of superior firepower?

[spintreebob]

3 kinds of anonymous sources

- There is no source at all. It is totally made up by the reporter (or more likely his editor/producer). I suspect this is over 50% of NBCABCCBSMSNCNNNPRPBSNYTWAPO anonymous sources.

- The media knows full well who the source is but wants to keep it secret. In some cases the reason the media does not want the source revealed is that the source is not credible. The source is remote from the story...for example the janitor in the adjacent building who exchanged gossip with the maid in the building that houses the subject. This might be 40% of anonymous sources.

- The media itself has no clue who the source is. The source is truly anonymous.

A good journalist will not go with a story unless independent corroboration is made. But the excuse is given that due to the pressure in the business to be first with a story, the media has no time to check the facts. The local media frequently gets PUNKED this way. Sometimes the national media is PUNKED also.

[bray]

Up Chuck got shut down.

Pray America woke

[Ann Archy]

Chuck Todd’s Goattee looks like what a Child Molester would wear!

[TomGuy]

Anonymous sources? What about a decent editor or fact checker, Todd?

TODD: Senators can call for it on their own. I mean, you called during your campaign against Mike prior. You called for a special prosecutor for the IRS. When does-- How does this Russia allegation, when does that rise to that level in your mind?

That should be: Mark Pryor.

[FrankR]

I could totally make up a story, call the press and tell them that I have some trash on Trump, but I’ll only disclose it if they protect my anonymity, they’d run it, the rest of the media would pounce on it, and none of it would be true.

Most of these “anonymous sources” are probably the media, throwing out crap just to keep the people buzzing, to gain ratings, and to ask their “panel” what it all means. The traditional “headline readers” take it as fact, and spreads it around.

Play their game, sue them for slander/libel on every “anonymous” story.

[TomGuy]

Pre-cable when I would watch regular TV morning news, I always chuckled at Katie Couric’s famous:

“Some say ...”

and

“There are those who say ...”

She used one or both in nearly every interview. She NEVER identified who ‘some’ or ‘those’ were.

I would have responded: “So?” or “So what?” “There are those who think the moon is make out of green cheese.”

[onyx]

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[Kaslin]

Thanks

[Az Joe]

While in college, Todd worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent!

[timestax]

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