Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/20

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Subject: [Leica] Journalism
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:44:29 +0000

John Brownlow:
>Anonymous sources are a necessary part of *all* journalism
>where people depend for their livelihoods on organisations they wish to

>criticise. The idea that all sources should be public plays into the
hands
>of those who have the power to threaten, whether explicitly or by
>implication


Thanks, John. I obviously agree, although the same message would perhaps
not have had as much impact coming from me. And your message was more
eloquent than I could have written it.

- --Mike