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Title: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Alex Heartnet on July 26, 2012, 10:30:22 am
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html

I had to re-read this article a few times myself to make sure that it is, indeed, saying what I think it is.

According to the article, news agencies allow campaign officials to 'approve' or 'disapprove' of quotes before they go in.  Define 'censorship', please?
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 26, 2012, 11:01:42 am
This isn't recent news, IIRC. I've seen stuff about it for a week or so?

And it's born of the fact that you need sources to make news and they aren't willing to give up official sources, and eventually the official sources caught on that they had power.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Klaustrophobia on July 26, 2012, 11:10:43 am
given the media's tendency to spin ****ing everything with selective, misleading and out of context quotes, this does not surprise or concern me.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Ghostavo on July 26, 2012, 11:11:13 am
From what I got, the campaign officials only allow interviews if and only if they can "check" the quoted content in those interviews, but not from other sources.

While I can understand that this process could help prevent misunderstandings, it can also prevent a critical review from the reader about politician stances that they'd rather go unpublished.

The news agencies got themselves into a prisoner's dilemma type of situation. While they would profit more from cooperating between themselves by refusing to publish any interviews in such conditions, they cannot do so without risk being left out of the loop by every other consenting news agency.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Aardwolf on July 26, 2012, 12:00:29 pm
Or they could record the whole interview anyway (if necessary, including "we're recording this, is that ok?" "yes" *recording start sound*), and quote them anyway.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Mikes on July 26, 2012, 01:08:12 pm
Or they could record the whole interview anyway (if necessary, including "we're recording this, is that ok?" "yes" *recording start sound*), and quote them anyway.

Only once - and then they would be locked out.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Aardwolf on July 27, 2012, 12:03:53 am
Oh right. Sounded too obvious. Durrrrr.
Title: Re: NY Times claims that news agencies allow campaign managers to edit articles
Post by: Alex Heartnet on July 27, 2012, 03:24:57 pm
Only once - and then they would be locked out.

Then you just pay a bunch of reporters to follow the politicians around and write down everything they say, probably forcing the politicians to run away from the muckraking journalists who want more and more juicy details for their big stories.  Stories have been done that way in the past.