This is pretty unedifying.
Now we have an individual journalist deciding to keep from the world the certain proof that Sarah Palin was a candidate of limited schooling, restraint and intellect. That’s not a decision that any journalist worth their salt should take. If the consequence of breaking an off-the-record agreement is ostracism from the campaign or the opprobrium of one’s peers than that is a price the ought in any conscience be paid for revealing the truth
It’s time to think a little more carefully about what goes off the record, abnd wonder at the ethics of the journalists who take that decision, and in what inetrest. Probably not the public’s.
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First!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Be that as it may, isn’t it sad that Gore Vidal has now slipped into the warm embrace of senility?
Isn’t he just respecting his source?, wouldn’t he be wrong for agreeing to it being OTR and then breaking that commitment?
My head just hit the keyboard!! What’s the point in having a ‘reporter-of-news-past’? Sort of like saying Palin was a hologram for the duration of the campaign after McCain did another hail Mary and through the ball so far downfield it went out. Karl forgot to tell us that too?