When we started in this profession (sorry, in this function!), Somewhere in the late eighties, the older ones told us whenThere are two journalist’s nuclear weapons:
* The agenda of the agenda and
* The file of
Understandable because the good The numbers were and are from more or less private and you don’t find them in their lists online. It takes a way and a way to get them when you make the guard as a pupil. Your doors are for the most valuable good of the industry, information.
As for the fileif it was once useful before the time of the internet, now they are ten.
Let me tell you why?
Because the Info that has not been digitized is as if it didn’t exist!
Take a simple test and you will understand me.
Do one Looking at the Governor Systemfor events of the not -so -distant past, of the eighties of good time, and you will find few things.
Don’t tell me at all in a “free form”, who will now sit for his Gavladza to pass into digital files, with the necessary Tags, all this huge volume of news?
Abroad the subscription blooms, if the cracks you will find your way.
To Greece, again, difficult things, We still cry for access In the electronic archive of “Eleftherotypia” Those of us who went through there …
Anyway, “Washington Post” He promised you in the title, for the “Washington Post” I have to note five things.
As the myrians are heard lately that he Bilioner the Bezos He has imposed censorship and does not let journalists write in consciousness and Trump is of course blame (Trump is to blame, clearly!) And who are heading for gentlemen, and the profession is still in the job.
And here’s where the file comes in the middle.
The file in the form of a booksince in the tomato under the title “Generation of swine” They are gathered dozens of columns of the maximum Hunter Thompson from his collaboration with “San Francisco Examiner” in the middle of the eighties.
So yesterday, when the African dust had been tired of me and they had a parties in my head, I caught up to read the reason for the word and fell into an article from May 1986. And there was a Titan of American Journalism:
“When the CIA leader William J. Casey pressed the Washington Post to cancel the publication of Bob Woodward’s explosive article for recent businesses and failed, President Reagan took over. At the end of their conversation, Graham asked for cuts and rewriting the text.
Woodward grumbled and squeezed but lawyers They called him paranoid And the article was ultimately unraveled for national security reasons. The censorship and cuff in journalism on behalf of the White House was so clear that even USA Today talked about shame. ‘Post made back’wrote Columnist Michael J. Gartner, “and published a colossal censored article that was both crazy and uncomplicated.”
So not to be forgotten and we think that now the Americans are old, while in the past there were ethics models …