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All hands are summoned to an urgent meeting.
"Listen up! Someone in this room is a snitch," explains the CEO. "Now, we senior executives here at NBC take our commitments to ethical practices very seriously..."
(snickers in the background)
"Who did that? Who laughed?! Are you the snitch?"
"No, sir, I just had an, um... reflux."
"Hmmnn... OK. As I was saying, a news organization like ours cannot function without some degree of confidentially being assured to the sources we rely on. General Barry McCaffrey, a highly respected expert whose ..."
(more snickers)
"You again?!?"
"Sorry sir. Can I just ask, is it true what Glenn Greenwald wrote? We've all read it by now, you know."
"Listen, that's not the point..."
"But surely it is, sir? I mean, either we take our commitment to ethics seriously or we don't. Which is it?"
