Talk:Background (journalism)

This article didn't seem quite accurate, so I've rewritten it a little to reflect that there is confusion about these terms; they seem to be used differently at various levels in journalism (local, national, international), and may be used differently even within the same category. I deleted the airline source example, as it stuck closely to one definition, and I couldn't see how to rewrite it to reflect the confusion. Whoever wrote it, by all means feel free to put it back if you can think of a way round that. Hope that's okay. SlimVirgin 05:41, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

In my versions of this and related articles, the distinctly different definitions of "background", "deep background", and "off the record" were based on a handout that was drilled into me back in J-school. I have only Prof. Fountain (or was it Kirtz?) to blame. - Keith D. Tyler  [ flame ]  07:09, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi Keith, the problem is that the terms aren't used by all journalists in the same way, as the link to the article showed. No disrespect to Prof. Fountain. ;-) Did you want to change something about my edit? SlimVirgin 16:00, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

Suggesting a merge
I put a suggestion that we merge this to News source it seems a good heading underwhich all this article would fit and it would help this material to develop. In addtion, I placed the journalism template here as well. I hope none of this seems persumtive or anything. Cheers, Calicocat 08:18, 31 July 2005 (UTC)