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In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] .edu writes: > > On Tue, 04 Apr 2000 21:16:55 PDT, Ehud Gavron said: > > Your list of people below are already emailing me to > > say "no no, we just gave him info" > > > > You're not journalist. > > (I'm assuming here that Gordon starts off with "Hi, I'm Gordon Cook, > with the Cook Report", and not social-engineering with false names etc ;) > > Umm.. given the list of names for 1998 through 2000, and the fact that > I *know* that at least some of them were aware of what Gordon writes > when they gave him info, I think it's safe to conclude that at least > a good fraction of Gordon's listed sources were giving him information > fully aware of where it was going to end up. If you tell somebody info > knowing it's going into a well-publicized newsletter, you're talking to > a journalist. It may not be Tom Brokaw, but it's a journalist. ;) Absolutely. As one of the people Gordon interviewed, there was and is no doubt in my mind that he's a journalist. In fact, I know of no reasonable definition of the term that would exclude him -- he gathers information and publishes it. Yes, Gordon expresses opinions -- but the set "columnist" is a subset of the set "journalist". Yes, I (and many others on this list) often disagree with his viewpoint. So what? --Steve Bellovin
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