"My source"

[Alpo]

I wonder when the guy that told stuff - or sold stuff - to newspaper reporters became a "source"?

 

I've been watching the 1948 serial Superman. And there's this guy that frequently comes to Lois Lane with information, which she pays for.

 

She refers to him as a "snitch".

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

The Snitches objected to the term, deemed it derogatory and formed a union.

Once unionized, they decided "Snitch" was indeed an objectionable word and hired consultants to research the matter and come up with a non-offensive descriptive word to describe themselves and their members.

After a number of years, several progress reports and a few million dollars, funded from dues, it was decided by the union executive to put the matter to a vote, that thereafter, they would be referred to as a "SOURCE" "UNNAMED SOURCE" or "A SOURCE CLOSE TO ......)

The voting was administered and the votes tabulated by an independent accounting firm and the results presented to the Executive.

 

And now you know.

[Cypress Sun]

 

Huggy Bear

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

The Snitches objected to the term, deemed it derogatory and formed a union.

Once unionized, they decided "Snitch" was indeed an objectionable word and hired consultants to research the matter and come up with a non-offensive descriptive word to describe themselves and their members.

After a number of years, several progress reports and a few million dollars, funded from dues, it was decided by the union executive to put the matter to a vote, that thereafter, they would be referred to as a "SOURCE" "UNNAMED SOURCE" or "A SOURCE CLOSE TO ......)

The voting was administered and the votes tabulated by an independent accounting firm and the results presented to the Executive.

 

And now you know.

I’m surprised they didn’t get a gov’t grant to fund the research.

[Alpo]

3 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

And now you know.

Does that make you a source?

[Subdeacon Joe]

I think I first heard it in this context during the Watergate Hearings.

[watab kid]

my question is where are the sources for all of the "news sources" these days ? i knw they dont fact check , but fats the source to start with ???

Edited April 15 by watab kid

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

9 hours ago, watab kid said:

my question is where are the sources for all of the "news sources" these days ? i knw they dont fact check , but fats the source to start with ???

The "Sources" can be anyone with an axe to grind, true or false, or any bit of information, taken out of context or misunderstood.

Any "Fact Checking" can be a quick phone call to someone far enough up the ladder from the "Source's" starting reference point that it will be impossible for the person questioned for comment to find out anything in the time available to respond.

This can then generate the famous "No comment was made by press time!"

[watab kid]

12 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

The "Sources" can be anyone with an axe to grind, true or false, or any bit of information, taken out of context or misunderstood.

Any "Fact Checking" can be a quick phone call to someone far enough up the ladder from the "Source's" starting reference point that it will be impossible for the person questioned for comment to find out anything in the time available to respond.

This can then generate the famous "No comment was made by press time!"

so basically exactly what i thought - they make chit up and publish it as news and its really lies , no truth , no facts , nothing of any value there , 

exactly why i dont listen to the MSM or most blogs and such ,