[governance] how to un-digg?

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Hi Roney

Nobody said that sending a report to an interviewee for quotes cross
checking is calling for censorship.  No, this is not the case since the
sound is there to counterproof any ensuing argument. Failure to do so may
lead to having the doors of news sources sealed.
That surely is the case with Adam who will have to think one million times
before granting an interview to the Spanish Newspaper whose Journalist
gaffed. H did not complain that he was quoted out of context or that that
"they blew his statement out of proportion" as American darling politician
of the moment (Barack Obama) would say.
On the other hand, in political reporting, John's fact could be a misfact to
Paul. That is why you have the 'quote out of context' palaver. IG deals with
standard procedures and things that need  being acquainted to before delving
into. There is no outsmarting people in IG that will invite the "quote out
of context" war slogan.

Mee thinks emphatically that on purely specialized subjects like Internet et
all, Journalists specialized in covering political news bits stay off or
should at least gather the bit for the desk incharge only. If they dabble in
a clumsy way as Adam stated, people like Suresh Rasba, with more incisive
words, will tear them to shreds. Believe me, Suresh has no qualms in that!!!
ANY WAY IT IS NOT A MATTER OF FEAR BUT THAT OF RELIABILITY

Cheers

On 5/21/08, KovenRonald at aol.com <KovenRonald at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All --
>
> I respectfully disagree that journalists have any obligation to submit
> texts beforehand to interviewees.
>
> In fact, doing so -- submitting in effect to a form of prior censorship --
> would be grounds for dismissal at major news outlets where I have worked.
>
> It is standard procedure for politicians to say when a statement later
> proves to be embarassing that they were misquoted or quoted "out of
> context." That can happen, of course. But in most cases of which I've been
> aware, that's just a copout by the speaker. The "quoted out of context"
> defense automatically produces sniggers amongst journalists.
>
> I had a case in which the late Shah's sister publicly denied having said
> something to me that prompted a former business partner to claim he had been
> cheated by her. There was a lawsuit over it. Her lawyer backed off when my
> lawyer produced my tape recording in which she repeated the statement twice.
>
>
> I even had a US ambassador complain once that I had too uncritically
> reproduced exactly what he had said in a press briefing and that I should
> have stepped back from what it was he was saying.
>
> Nobody is ever happy with what the reporter writes because the reporter
> never writes exactly what the source would have written. The problem is
> sometimes that a generalist reporter is not going to be expert in the
> source's field. It is then the source's responsbility in dealing with a
> non-specialist journalist to be clear and precise. But the problem for the
> source is also that the reporter is not in the business of grinding the
> source's axes for him or her. And a good thing, too.
>
> Public figures will keep saying that their thoughts or meanings were
> betrayed by journalistic incompetents. It's the looselipped pol's easy way
> out.
>
> Rony Koven
>
>
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