The truth about political journalists.

Presents the author's opinion as to the truth about how political journalism works and explains the hypocrisy behind the charge that the BBC's defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan relied on one source for his story that the government's dossier on Iraq was exaggerated. Importance of sources in pol...

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Published in:New Statesman Vol. 132; no. 4646; pp. 14 - 16
Main Author: Routledge, Paul
Format: Article
Published: New Statesman Ltd. 7/14/2003
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      ab: Presents the author's opinion as to the truth about how political journalism works and explains the hypocrisy behind the charge that the BBC's defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan relied on one source for his story that the government's dossier on Iraq was exaggerated. Importance of sources in political journalism; Use of Charlie Whelan as the source for political journalist Paul Routledge; Validity of Gilligan's source.
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