Opinion: Quote approval strangles news reporting

Quotation-approval is not just the province of politicians. It has become more difficult to get direct answers to questions on the business beat as companies put preconditions and quote-approval requirements on reporters, writes David Carr for The New York Times.

One thing is clear, he says, “The first draft of history should not be rewritten by the people who make it.” -db

From a commentary in The New York Times, September 16, 2012, by David Carr.

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