Bloomberg Reporter Accused Of Creating Quote For Source
It’s a shame that it’s the day before Christmas, because this controversy deserves a little more attention than what it will get in the pre-holiday rush.
John Aravosis at AmericaBlog.com has published an email sent by Bloomberg reporter Dan Golden to a source back in September. Golden, working on a story about the for-profit education sector, emails a source asking for a more direct quote regarding challenges his company has faced. The way he frames the potential quote is bound to make any trained journalist a little queasy:
“I’d love it if you could come up something on the record that might reflect some of this — perhaps along the lines of — Phoenix’s original model was magic because XXX — but the current model has some of the same flaws that have dogged other for-profit schools — X and Y.”
Aravosis
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