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To: MindBender26

I have spoken with a number of old TV journalist friends in last 12 hours.

Please provide their names and their affiliations. This article contains no sources.

As such, it can't be taken seriously.

25 posted on 09/12/2008 1:26:48 PM PDT by Chunga (Vote Republican)

>>>> Please provide their names and their affiliations.

Sources burned cease to be sources.

>>>> As such, it can’t be taken seriously.

Then don’t

35 posted on 09/12/2008 1:32:43 PM PDT by MindBender26 (Never kick a leftist when they are down. Wait until they are halfway back up. You get more leverage!)

To: Chunga; MindBender26

" I have spoken with a number of old TV journalist friends in last 12 hours."

Please provide their names and their affiliations. This article contains no sources. As such, it can't be taken seriously.

Yo, Chunga, this great piece doesn't pretend or presume to be a piece of reporting. It is a personal, first-person anecdotal opinion piece, and a darned well-done one. As a reader fully aware of this from the first few lines, I went into it buyer-beware, first cousin to your "taken seriously" assumption.

Now had it been a news story, with a byline, in third person, clearly aiming to convey factual info, you'd have a point. Unnamed sources in published news stories should be suspect and may or may not be taken seriously.

84 posted on 09/12/2008 4:08:07 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)

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