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Why we were right to publish Obama aide's 'off-the-record' remark



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Published Date: 10 March 2008
By Ian Stewart
Readers' Ombudsman
THE speed and the power of modern global communications has rarely been more apparent than last Friday, when a story from The Scotsman reached the very highest levels of American politics in a matter of hours.
The report stemmed from an interview by our political correspondent Gerri Peev with Barack Obama's foreign policy aide, Samantha Power. The article was to prove controversial, politically and journalistically.

During the interview Ms Power, a Har...



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  • Last Updated: 09 March 2008 9:17 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Gerri Peev , Ian Stewart
 
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CRAGman,

10/03/2008 00:25:07
Ian Stewart - you're the kind of journalist who would have felt it their moral duty to have betrayed Ann Frank to the Nazis if you have found out from someone - off the record, of course - that she was in hiding. Shame on you. How about you and Gerri Peev getting a decent job - like cleaning public toilets - now?
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Salcido,

San Francisco, CA USA 10/03/2008 01:49:46
Ian Stewart you are a disgrace to all journalists. Your editor should be ashamed of running such a story. Off the record means off the record. Remember Ian, without values we are nothing but more than apes. You should be working at a tabloid instead.
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Socrates2,

10/03/2008 20:15:19
gerri peev is now the scotsman's number one human asset

 

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