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  • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
    Help me out with this sentence then. As specifically as you can, what does this mean
    Multiple reliable sources, not just repeating the same thing somebody else said. That's what gossips do.
    You bolded the wrong part.....

    Multiple reliable sources, not just repeating the same thing somebody else said. That's what gossips do.
    Do you need me to explain "sources", when used in a journalistic manner?
    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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    • Originally posted by Ronson View Post
      Sorry if I am sounding 'elitist', but I worked as a reporter for a newspaper for four years. So I know something about the business....
      Hey, yet ANOTHER thing we have in common!!!!
      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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      • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
        No, it has LONG been a journalistic standard to INDEPENDENTLY verify a story. Multiple reliable sources, not just repeating the same thing somebody else said. That's what gossips do.

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        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
          You bolded the wrong part.....



          Do you need me to explain "sources", when used in a journalistic manner?
          AFAIK all the articles have cited multiple sources. Are you saying anonymous sources are by definition unreliable?

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          • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            Can anybody help patriotboy see the difference here?
            Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
            ...Multiple reliable sources....
            Cow Poke is talking about more then one source that have proven to be reliable

            Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
            Yes, that's what I said.
            No that is not what you said Divine OB

            Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
            ...the same anonymous source....
            you are talking about a single source
            Last edited by RumTumTugger; 06-30-2020, 06:01 PM.

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            • Originally posted by Ronson View Post
              Sorry if I am sounding 'elitist', but I worked as a reporter for a newspaper for four years. So I know something about the business.
              Sorry, I don't believe you.

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              • Originally posted by RumTumTugger View Post
                same anonymous source - a single source
                Mulitplesources - more then one source
                Great. AFAIK all of the articles cite multiple sources.

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                • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                  Hey, yet ANOTHER thing we have in common!!!!
                  Oh cool! I worked for The Daily Triplicate in Crescent City, California from 2000 to 2004. Yeah, small-time backwater paper but I got to interview some interesting people. The most interesting was Chuck Yeager. He used to go fishing a lot at a nearby river.

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                  • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                    Sorry, I don't believe you.
                    Whatever.

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                    • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                      Great. AFAIK all of the articles cite multiple sources.
                      Then why did you say....

                      Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                      If two news sources speak to the same anonymous source .....
                      The former is multiple
                      the latter is singular

                      Do you wish to change your story?
                      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                      • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                        Great. AFAIK all of the articles cite multiple sources.
                        You only mentioned Mr. A nonymous in your reply to my fact check of the AP story.

                        There may have been mulitple anonymous sources in the reports but that doesn't' make them reliable we don't know. Were they in the room, did they see President Trump reading the report, did they know what was in the report, or is it water cooler talk? we don't know. and given the track record of NYTs, CNN, etc I have to guess they really don't know or were making it out of whole cloth because they have had to back track time and again on articles or reports they made about orange man being bad when the facts that came out later proved the opposite of what they said happened. Russia Collusion, Covingting Kids, Urkraine Collusion etc.
                        Last edited by RumTumTugger; 06-30-2020, 06:24 PM.

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                        • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                          Then why did you say....



                          The former is multiple
                          the latter is singular

                          Do you wish to change your story?
                          You're a pastor and you don't understand the subjunctive verb tense?

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                          • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                            You're a pastor and you don't understand the subjunctive verb tense?


                            So, you're gonna go with that, eh?
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post




                              So, you're gonna go with that, eh?
                              Yes, I'm going to go with pointing out that one of those was a statement of fact and one was a hypothetical.

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                              • Originally posted by DivineOb View Post
                                Yes, I'm going to go with pointing out that one of those was a statement of fact and one was a hypothetical.
                                Sure. Go with that.
                                The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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