Reporter Confidentiality/Bushco Loyalty

[stopbush]

In the big picture, there's great similarity in a reporter keeping his sources in confidence and bushco's absolutist rewarding of loyalty. That's to say that once the shell of the egg is broken, the egg is pretty much finished.

Bushco can't give up on Rove because it will discredit their *loyalty ueber alles* to the rest of their minions. It one falls, they can all fall. Same thing with reporters - give up one source and you lose the rest of your sources - and, you've just lost your job.

Sort of poetic, ain't it?

[NVMojo]

1. when I was a reporter, I would hold respect for "off-the-record" comments

said to me confidentially until the issue being discussed became of public nature. I never made any agreements to do so permanently or I would tell the whisperer that it might be better for them not to tell me something "off-the-record".