Small wonder Liberals are keen to limit use of sources that the government can’t trace, given their predicament over foreign interference
He deemed political journalism’s biggest weakness to be its reliance on official sources. “To know things as they are, is better than to believe things as they are seen,” he wrote.That often meant a degree of subjectivity — “objective journalism almost always favours the Establishment position.” It certainly meant using anonymous sources to get to the truth, as he and rival reporters at the Washington Post did during Watergate.
Among the 24 proposals adopted by majority support at the convention in Ottawa were two that are likely unconstitutional because of their threat to free expression in this country. Small wonder perhaps that Liberals are keen to limit the use of sources that the government can’t trace, given the predicament they are in over foreign interference in elections.
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