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About a year ago, I e-mailed one of my classmates for an article about Harvard students with political ambitions. He wasn??€™t sure he wanted to be interviewed, so we talked about the article on the phone. He told me it was stupid for college kids to speculate about their political careers...
...them, you often don’t tell, at least not at the beginning of the interview. If concealing information from a source means getting more or better information to the public, then journalists will do it—within certain bounds, of course. I could be vague; I wasn??€™t allowed...
...first time I talked to Caleb on the phone, I had my editor sit next to me to monitor the call. We had already decided that I wasn??€™t going to tell Caleb about the presidential angle of my story. My editor was there to make sure that I struck the right balance and told just enough of the truth...
...asked him to clarify what he had said before. He told me that he wasn??€™t going to say that he was planning to reach a certain political office in a certain number of years. He said he had no definite plans for post graduation, and he thought it was stupid for college students to make grand predictions about their political futures. It made them look like tools, he said. He didn't want to come off as a tool...
When I first met Caleb for our interview, I was more nervous than he was. The Crimson had paid to fly me down to D.C. to interview him. If I got there and he backed out on me, I wasn??€™t sure what I was going...