21-07-2009, 06:46 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Also, creator of the Chatham House Rules, which are not nearly as notorious as they should be.
As a journalist, I would refuse to accept Chatham House Rules. Unfortunately, many so called journalists do, disgracefully, operate under them.
You beat me to it Jan.
They are indeed notorious and IMO totally unacceptable where any matter of public policy journalism is involved.
The thing is that most people when first confronted with them seem to regard it as a kind of flattery. Confirmation that they are being admitted to a privileged, confidential inner sanctum sort of thing - and they go along with it almost as a matter of course. Enables them to look down on the Hoi-Polloy I guess - People like Michael White (Though I'm sure there are far worse) spring to mind
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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