• Rapidcreek@reddthat.comOP
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    11 months ago

    He’s a government spokesman. Good journalism is to quote him directly, which they did. Quotation marks and everything.

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      11 months ago

      Good journalism would be not quoting and repeating unsubstantiated claims at all.

      Unless you’re going to write an article saying “spokesman makes wild and unsubstantiated claims at press conference”.