Here’s Dan Rather, as blogged by Christine Herron at SXSW Interactive:
Over the last five or six years, so many journalists have started to ‘go along to get along.’ This whole business of access journalism has created a very perilous state.
And here’s Tim Russert, testifying last month in the Scooter Libby trial:
My personal policy is always off the record when talking to government officials unless specified.
I know which one of these two men I wish was still working in network news.
Thanks for the quotes. They validate what I’ve always thought. I appreciate your providing a welcome and much-needed respite from the exaggerated respect while Russert lived and the unmitigated uncritical over-the-top paeans (sp?) of praise since his death.