• SheeEttin@lemmy.worldBanned
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    2 年前

    Maybe, but that’s not how the article is framed.

    Personally, I don’t think someone spouting off should be repeated. Good journalism would be investigating and verifying the claim.

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      He’s a government spokesman. Good journalism is to quote him directly, which they did. Quotation marks and everything.

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        Good journalism would be not quoting and repeating unsubstantiated claims at all.

        Unless you’re going to write an article saying “spokesman makes wild and unsubstantiated claims at press conference”.