07-25-2012, 11:46 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Sharing my mother's basement with several liberals who can't hold a job.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MS Fowler
I am of two minds on this....
1) We all know how often the press gets it wrong. Almost anyone with any contact with the press complains that they are frequently mis-quoted. So, if this quote policy simply is insurance that they quotes are correct, it could be a good thing.
2) On the other hand, a candidate, or their press agent could use this as a way to sanitize, or even "walk back" comments that a candidate made, but now regrets.
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This has to do with what is 'allowed' to be reported.
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