Beat reporters and their sources have ongoing and highly symbiotic relationships that must yet exhibit a certain amount of distance in order to be healthy and good (ie, providing balanced news coverage). That’s why,
at the end of this post, EdWeek’s David Hoff tries to make clear that -- however admiring his sources may be towards him (as I have noted) -- to him they’re just sources, no one more important than the other.
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