Liz, yes, I have a job. I also had a good friend come to the US who asked for help. From me. As his friend of 15 years. Our exchanges were our personal views, always. Given how we met & the time I’ve spent in/on Saudi supporting great people & orgs, this is particularly surreal.
Worryingly, an executive for the Qatar Foundation helped Jamal Khashoggi write some of his columns and the @washingtonpost didn't know. This & other new details in this great piece by @smekhennet & @gregpmillerhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jamal-khashoggis-final-months-an-exile-in-the-long-shadow-of-saudi-arabia/2018/12/21/d6fc68c2-0476-11e9-b6a9-0aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.6d2269701301 …
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I realize this was probably just an act of friendship, but it’s a journalistic no-no. All the people who contributed to articles should be fully identified. And this is why we are not allowed to share our articles before they are published.
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Liz, I wonder if you're applying newsroom standards here. Opinion columnists at major outlets have researchers who are not credited in their columns. Research assistants at think tanks draft opeds for fellows; PR departments do it for NGO executives; staff for politicians, etc
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I agree. I’ve read, offered feedback, and even edited, the opinion pieces of many journalist friends over the years. It’s parochial to suggest this is so deviant and such an enormous ethical lapse. It holds one old friendship up to a standard that doesn’t exist as described.
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In those cases, PR people, staff etc are working for the same outfit as the author, whose affiliation is identified. It's different if the person who is providing advice and input is working for a government-affiliated organization and that is not disclosed.
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Not necessarily. If Azadeh or I offered a journalist friend or colleague any thoughts on a piece, those thoughts are not the product of our employers. It’s what writers have done all their lives - shared thoughts, asked for advice, and debated points.
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Good point. The major issue here is that Maggie explains that she shared her thoughts with Jamal as a friend, not an employee of QFI. That kind of feedback is not unusual, especially in opinion writing. It’s not the same standard as a sharing a news story with a source
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The piece was also distorted in emphasizing Maggie’s current job at QFI, not her long preceding decades long friendship with Jamal. It insinuates there was some kind of untoward influence. And opeds by foreign writers r regularly drafted by English writing allies, w/o disclosure
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As I have said many times, Saudi is evil but dumb, Qatar is evil but smart. Qatar outplaying you all.https://twitter.com/bbassem7/status/970382293029154816?s=21 …
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Can't be stated enough times. Suadi is a big punching bag these days, the writiting is on the wall: but Qatar has become the center for sponsoring Islamist extremism as Saudi has declined over the last decade.
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"and the
@washingtonpost didn't know" LOL. The hand wringers at the#WaPo act like they know everything else, including what is best for the over 300 million of us outside the#Beltway, yet they can't manage their own office.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Why is this worrisome? He wrote *opinion pieces*.
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Because he wasn't a 'journalist', he was an agent of a foreign government, placing their propaganda pieces in WAPO as his own work.
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He was more a journalist than a foreign agent.
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No. He was a Muslim Brotherhood operative.
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The reason Khashoggi was murdered, is because he was in the losing faction of a struggle for power in Saudi Arabia, not because he was some shining light of journalistic integrity serving the public interest. His views mostly matched those of the Saudi hardline Wahhabis.
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Mohammed al houthi wrote a column and the Washington post published it! al houthi flag says death to the US (see pic) and seems like WaPo is fine with that, this is brought to you by the one and only
@KarenAttiah, WaPo sold their integrity long time ago to the likes of Qatar.pic.twitter.com/eyI8eAMEcP
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Wapo actually had integrity???
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