You Shield Us, We'll Shield You
Newsweek, July, 2005 by Jonathan Alter
As a general rule, journalists shouldn't be in the business of lobbying Congress. But once in a long while an issue comes along that so threatens what we do--and what you read and see--that we need to use whatever leverage we have to change the law. That's why in the wake of Time Inc.'s decision last week to betray a source, I'm recommending what might be called the Lysistrata Strategy, after the play by Aristophanes in which ancient Greek women withheld sex from their husbands until they stopped fighting the Peloponnesian War.
The reporter-source relationship has sexual overtones anyway (seduction, mutual satisfaction), so here's the deal: no more off-the-record chats with White House political aides, members of Congress or their staffs unless they support the Free Flow of...
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