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Re:Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC by untog on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @08:36PM (#13027281)
That seems to describe an NYT journalist emailing members of the Hillary team and talking about their candidate in positive terms.

Maybe I don't expect enough of journalists, but I'm not really seeing the scandal there. Buttering up a source by talking positively about their candidate seems... sensible?

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Re:Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC by SilasX on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:09PM (#13027466)
Fair enough. If this is limited to that kind of flattery (and I haven't read enough to verify either way) then we can write that off as good ol-fashioned "working a source" and not particularly worrisome.
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