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While you are reading this editorial, a subtle game is being played between the government bureaucracy and the media. The media frames the issues and sets the agenda, while the government decides which information to release and what secrets to leak. The media and the government share a symbiotic relationship, manipulating and reacting to each other. The media-governmental nexus is a single institution, and it possesses ultimate political power in our society; those outside the loop, namely you, the readers, are passive observers of the institution which actually governs our nation...
Reporters would normally acknowledge leaks by citing "unnamed sources" or "officials who refused to be identified." The readers seldom consider the reason that this unnamed official consented to be interviewed. Government officials do not talk to the press off-the-record out of the goodness of their hearts or from a profound respect for the democratic process. Instead, officials leak information because it is in their interest to have a certain message broadcast by the media...
...dependence of the media on public diplomacy and leads for its news creates enormous possibilities for the government to manipulate the media in order to broadcast a deceptive message to foreign countries. Government officials could leak false information, simulating either government policies or bureaucratic infighting which do not exist in order to maintain the element of surprise in international competition...
Apparently so. Geoffrey H. Movius, associate director of major gifts, protects Harvard's fundraising secrets as though a leak could undermine national security...
...total of 11 people received treatment at area hospitals following the leak. Fire officials had reported earlier that ten people had been sent to hospitals...