'Height of Arrogance': NYT Reporter 'Upset' at Blogger

InstpunditGlenn Reynolds on the Brian Lehrer show said New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro was “very upset” that Reynolds wrote about an interview they had before Barbaro’s story on blogging was out. Even more upset, he said, that Reynolds later linked to a Wal-Mart blog that told a lot more details.

“When reporters protect their sources, that’s one thing. But when reporters start expecting sources to protect them, that seems the height of arrogance to me,” he said, agreeing it was basically for the reporter’s “economic advantage” to hold it.

Reynolds,

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