The advice I always gave young reporters is congruence. Don’t be super-friendly on the telephone then hang up and just nuke somebody. If it’s a hard story, you should communicate that. Congruence between the way you report and the way you write is important.
Don’t ambush your sources, frog-voiced Grey Lady defender cries
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2012.06.20 13:50. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2012/06/20/davidcarrcongruence/