No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  • -- Ian Hislop 伊恩·希斯洛普

不,没有关于消息来源的硬性规定,也没有帮助记者了解情况的印刷小册子。

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It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

过去,我们在争论的基本事实上存在分歧,我们对这些事实有不同的看法。现在我认为我们接受不同的权力来源。而且人们可以建立起自己的信誉——只要没有人跟踪这条路,并在这条路上大声疾呼。

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

我们没有其他来源的持不同政见者。如果他们挺身而出,那对我们来说将是一个棘手的局面。但我们的行为方式应该是让人们觉得道德上有义务继续我们的使命,而不是把它搞砸。

If we're going to live as we are in a world of supply and demand, then journalists had better find a way to create a demand for good journalism.

如果我们要像现在这样生活在一个供求关系的世界里,那么记者们最好找到一种方法来创造对优秀新闻的需求。

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

记者告诉我,脱口秀是行不通的。有人告诉我,我的第一季还没播完就被取消了。