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Making an Impossible Report Possible
Lou Gelfand
Star Tribune
Published 7/29/2007
 
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Ethics expert Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute said: "I don't know enough about the extent of Silverstein's reporting on the lobbyists story before he pulled the deception tool out of his bag. He argues that it would have been 'impossible' to get the same information and insight with more conventional journalistic methods. That's an argument he must defend to justify his decision to misrepresent his identification."
 
But Steele points out that the issue -- lobbyists stretching logic and truth on a foreign policy issue -- is a pretty substantive one, and I did find the results revealing


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