Trib Questions Background Briefings
Building on a story we’ve been asking about too recently, the Chicago Tribune’s public editor explores why Washington reporters play the background briefing game with “senior administration officials”:
Why do the media go along with this absurd practice, which leaves only the last and most important link in the information chain, the reader or viewer, ignorant?
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[T]he reason isn’t hard to figure out: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL and his ilk hold all the cards; they have the information reporters need to report stories, to inform the American people on what their government is doing or proposes to do.
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