Giggles' "Hill Whispers"

Jane Taber writes a sweet piece, perhaps a record-breaking one, that "Norman's Spectator" should have chosen as a "Great Moment in journalism":

...a senior adviser said...the adviser said...the senior adviser said...the worker said...the Liberal worker said...The Liberal worker said...the Liberal worker said...according to sources...one organizer said...The adviser will not talk...one veteran Liberal said...Some organizers say...one strategist says...Some organizers complained...Mr. Martin's senior adviser said...Liberal strategists saw...the adviser said...Liberal strategists believe...the adviser said...Said the senior adviser [at last some good old Time-speak]...

Anonymous sources are used twenty times; indeed not one source is identified. How many separate sources are there anyway? This is not the work of a reporter; this is not the work of an analyst; this is not is not the work of a columnist.

The Globe describes Ms Taber as "Senior Political Writer". False advertising: she is a gossip columnist. The mind boggles that the Globe continues to give her unsourced regurgitations of Liberal spin such prominence.

God bless the busybody with the new government.

Posted by markc at January 28, 2006 11:05 AM | TrackBack