WaPo's Weingarten Offers Journalism Advice 101

WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten covers a lot of ground in today’s online chat. Think of him as your Journalism professor minus all those rules to be quiet or couth.

A reader wonders if it’s ever okay to lie to hostile sources.

Weingarten replies, “This is a journalism question, and an interesting one.   A quick and glib  answer is that you should not lie to hostile sources because you are not the police and this is not a criminal matter.

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