{"id":34,"date":"2008-09-09T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/election08.cusjc.ca\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-09-09T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:57:00","slug":"unnamed-sourcesmear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Unnamed source\/smear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Globe’s Michael Valpy is one of the most revered figures in Canadian journalism, and rightly so, but he slipped a bit below his own high standards today by quoting a “senior Liberal” dissing Dion in an article about a new Liberal puff-piece on their leader. This “source” added no information, just an acid quote, and evidently doesn’t have the guts to put his or her name to the jab. Could this “senior Liberal” be a supporter of one of the other leadership candidates, or an adviser no longer in the inner circle? Don’t look for any information in the article.<\/p>\n

There’s a place for unnamed sources: when they put information before the public that is not obtainable any other way. And when we are told enough about the source make an evaluation of how seriously to take the information. But this is not what’s going on here.<\/p>\n

Here’s the passage:
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“But what it <\/em>[the video] won’t show is the St\u00e9phane Dion that many party members say they know: a man whose personality, as one senior Liberal put it this week, is far removed from the romantic abstraction \u2013 of the humble little engine that could \u2013 that won him the Liberal leadership. \u201cHe is absolutely the arrogant, stubborn know-it-all,\u201d the Liberal said.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Adams, a former political reporter with the CBC and Globe and Mail, is a member of Carleton’s journalism faculty and executive director of EKOS Research Associates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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