News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, UK publisher (1865-1922)
An early mentor told me: "Real news isn't released. It escapes."
Not an exact quote of Lord Northcliffe, but a useful corollary.
The work of Journalism involves checking facts and untangling agendas, not merely redistributing what's dumped in your lap... Whether it comes from a White House podium or a wiki website.
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