Couple questions: Will you be separating opinion from fact in your reporting, keeping your opinion pieces and your news pieces in separate articles?
And second, will you address the following in concrete, measurable terms?
Will each author, whether of a news piece or an opinion piece
1. identify at least some of his sources, and not hang his thesis solely on anonymous ones
2. if an anonymous source refuses to be identified, will the author show three things:
-the source actually exists
-why the source should be believed, given that by speaking, he's likely violating his terms of employment if not his oath of office
-why the source should be believed, given that by hiding behind anonymity, he's showing his cowardice, and cowards only say what's personally beneficial
3. if the anonymous source is a whistleblower, will the author provide evidence that the source has exhausted all internal whistleblowing channels before deciding to leak
Will you, as the head editor and MFWIC (that's Mighty Female What's In Charge, for the potty-mouthed among us all) address the following?
The press used to have a standard that required two on-the-record sources to corroborate the claims of anonymous sources. Will you
1. explain why the press has chosen to walk away from that standard of journalistic integrity, or assert that your outlet will resume that standard
2. alternatively, explain the standard you'll use in place of that one and why it's as good as, if not better than, that one.
Sadly, absent this, the news reporting here will be no more credible than that the NLMSM does.
In the event, good luck with this, and I hope it works: we need serious information reporting and opinionating that's actually grounded in logic informed by fact.
I just gave my journo brother a gift sub, but you haven’t yet updated the name (and price?) of the product. So I hope the gift will be honored for The Cosmo Globalist (isn’t that a good nickname? you could throw in occasional leg shaving tips...and cocktail recipes,)
You are hilarious Claire and I look forward to reading you. Please do not ignore Canada! If I am contributing to Claire, do I also need to subscribe?
Couple questions: Will you be separating opinion from fact in your reporting, keeping your opinion pieces and your news pieces in separate articles?
And second, will you address the following in concrete, measurable terms?
Will each author, whether of a news piece or an opinion piece
1. identify at least some of his sources, and not hang his thesis solely on anonymous ones
2. if an anonymous source refuses to be identified, will the author show three things:
-the source actually exists
-why the source should be believed, given that by speaking, he's likely violating his terms of employment if not his oath of office
-why the source should be believed, given that by hiding behind anonymity, he's showing his cowardice, and cowards only say what's personally beneficial
3. if the anonymous source is a whistleblower, will the author provide evidence that the source has exhausted all internal whistleblowing channels before deciding to leak
Will you, as the head editor and MFWIC (that's Mighty Female What's In Charge, for the potty-mouthed among us all) address the following?
The press used to have a standard that required two on-the-record sources to corroborate the claims of anonymous sources. Will you
1. explain why the press has chosen to walk away from that standard of journalistic integrity, or assert that your outlet will resume that standard
2. alternatively, explain the standard you'll use in place of that one and why it's as good as, if not better than, that one.
Sadly, absent this, the news reporting here will be no more credible than that the NLMSM does.
In the event, good luck with this, and I hope it works: we need serious information reporting and opinionating that's actually grounded in logic informed by fact.
Eric Hines
I just gave my journo brother a gift sub, but you haven’t yet updated the name (and price?) of the product. So I hope the gift will be honored for The Cosmo Globalist (isn’t that a good nickname? you could throw in occasional leg shaving tips...and cocktail recipes,)