I've had emails from "real" journalists asking about my sources, since I don't tend to quote them on my blog.
**NOTE** The "real" journalist wrote for our local rag of a paper and totally changed her tune when I refused to tell her where I found the stuff I wrote about. She turned it all around into, "Oh, I was asking you your reaction to this." Which was not the first case scenario. I had another "real" journalist ask me where I got some information and I gladly shared my hodgepodge with him to make what he would of it. He did not try to twist my words or his own request but cloaking it in false flattery.
Anyway.
I do my research the same as any first year journalism student would. I scour the Internet, occasionally go to the local public library and look things up on microfiche (because I am too poor to buy articles that are available for free and refuse to do it on principle) and hey, I know people around here and I know other people who know people around here.
So it remains a great mystery, but trust me, dear and gentle readers: Nothing I present as fact is something I have pulled randomly from the sky.
It's a blog, I don't have to cite sources for facts and we're all operating on a basis of trust here, anyway, aren't we?
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