Th gotcha game: Press vs White House...

[insein]

http://drudgereport.com/flash5abc.htm

ABCNEWS TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF 'INDICTMENT'
Tue Oct 25 2005 19:08:02 ET

"We have double sourced that the vice president's chief of staff has been indicted," a reporter for ABCNEWS claimed to a White House press spokesman this afternoon.

The White House refused to comment on the claim. The network said they didn't need comment, they were preparing to run with the development on this evening's network news broadcast, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

ABCNEWS claimed to the White House that it had double sourced how an indictment against vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby was set.

A senior White House source quickly determined ABC was bluffing; the report did not run on the East coast feed of the program.

ABC NEWS spokesman Jeff Schneider tells the DRUDGE REPORT: "There is nothing at all true about us having double sourced anything" regarding indictments.

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This is how a major news organization operates these days? They blackmail people into revealing a story with false claims of evidence? Maybe this is how it was always done and we're only realizing the extent of it in these modern times where competition exists.