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...though now an "access journalist," Scheer is not really housebroken. Attending his first Georgetown dinner party with a columnist, he relates: "I couldn't believe the conversation. Most journalists of power are part of a culture that is almost all 'off the record,' constantly swimming in a sea of information the rest of us don't get to see." If Scheer himself heard something of import at a dinner party, he would "violate that civilized behavior and maybe not get invited to any more parties." On the same grounds, he asserted his right to break confidences...
Keeping Secrets. The sea of information that Scheer imagines floating through Georgetown drawing rooms is not all that tidal, or ignored; access journalists fish rewardingly in such waters. Scheer seems to have confused "off the record" (which cannot be printed) with "not for attribution," where the sources cannot be named. But he nonetheless thinks the Washington press elite too cosily keeps secrets it should...
...Robert Scheer, who did the celebrated "adulterer in my heart" interview with Carter for Playboy, Robert Schrum, the speechwriter who quit the Carter campaign in a much publicized incident last spring, and Tom DeFrank, Newsweek's Ford campaign correspondent, all took turns immolating their chosen profession...
...Scheer told the crowd of more than 200 the media tailed to successfully cover the presidential campaign this year because reporters were unwilling to ask probing questions...
...press used to have interesting journalists--ones whom they could sic on the candidates. But now when reporters try to ask serious questions we feel like we're in the way," Scheer said...