So regarding the Halperin/Heilemann book--if your are a media insider...

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apparently you can write a gossipy book and the media will run with it and the burden of the proof is not on the "reporters" who wrote the book but on the people who they say said the things or did the things they say. I'm not saying that some of what is in the book isn't true but I have a feeling that a lot of it is half-truths and gossip.