K, so now begins my new regime of minimum thrice daily blog updates....
I'm about to go and interview the instigator of the 'how to do a BA' fiasco. She just so happens to be someone I know quite well....although its a relationship I've been trying to extricate myself from for about a year now....
So...that basically means that I'm maintaining contact with her purely for the sake of a story. A similar issue exists with my relationship with Katherine Furman, the Rhodes SRC Academic Rep. The idea is that deliberately strengthening my relationship with her will allow me to emotionally blackmail her into leaking confidential information to me.
So....I guess the question of course is whether I should feel bad. Am I a cad? Am I a bad journalist? In actual fact, I haven't really exploited these relationships as much as I had planned to, so I think my hands are still clean. But it is quite an interesting question.... And I do feel bad. I flipping well hope they don't read this.... :)
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Hmmm. I'm not sure if I agree with the whole emotional blackmail thing, but as long as you do it professionally, there should be no problem with using their contacts!
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