Tuesday, May 09, 2006

reluctant sources

So:

You are a regular source, and we contact you frequently to ask questions about all sorts of mostly good news, which we run, frequently, in our paper.

One day, we find out that something in your organization went awry, and we are handed a document that lays out the trouble and also seems to show that your org. handled said situation in a reasonable way. (Nobody is being sued.)

We call you on the phone and ask for comment. You clam up utterly, seemingly in the hope that this will cause us to refrain from running the story.

Hmmm. What do you suppose might happen?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would suppose that you would be wrong...

Alasdair said...

golly gee willikers, you nailed it!

ok, I guess it was not really a trick question...

Anonymous said...

I am blonde, they are ALL trick questions.