How journalists keep secrets
Max Frankel, a former New York Times journalist, has a long essay in this week’s NY Times Magazine about the secrets that pass back and forth in Washington and how journalists approach them.
Though he focuses mainly on the Libby trial, the article broadly sweeps over his own experiences with leaks in the past, and the conditions that are placed on journalists when a government official passes information along.
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