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...speech event takes place at eight o'clock and the paper has to go to press in a matter of hours, then there is often no time to check all the facts the speaker might have thrown out. As for quotations, the current policy is to try and confirm quotes by reading them back to the speaker "on matters that are highly sensitive, or if the reporter is not sure about the quote" says Chang. He estimates that this happens about 50 percent of the time...
However, Sheerr declined to confirm whether Radcliffe has hired consultants to aid with the planning process...
...suck d___." I asked him not to use this language in front of my children... I said that his drinking had caused him to lose his job, wife and children. [Shah denies that he drinks to excess, or that drinking has ever cost him a job; former colleagues confirm his account.] He came down the stairs...and punched me in the face, he hit me with the car seat which he had picked up, threw me to the ground and I fell in order to protect and cover the child in my arms. He continued to hit me. I looked...
...problems arose when The Crimson, a subscriber to the e-mail list, decided to run a story about the debate using quotations from the e-mails sent out over the list. Andrew Mandel '00, the staff writer assigned to the story, contacted members of the group to confirm their e-mail quotations...
...make a difference, however, that this issues concerns e-mail and not an official document. As Kuumba members point out, e-mail are incredibly easy to forge. They can also be casually forwarded and are disseminated much more loosely than official documents. If you cannot get the author to confirm an e-mail, does it constitute a valid source at all? Jennifer 8. Lee, vice president of The Crimson, concedes, "There is an additional responsibility to check on the source of an e-mail: there is a bigger element of gullibility. E-mail treads a tenuous line between phone conversations...