Kudos to the Times’s Somini Sengupta, in a piece on India’s government surviving a no-confidence vote, for stating that a quote she had gotten was in an email.
“India may be ‘emerging,’ but it will be a very high-maintenance friend
when it comes to any strategic partnership,” Stephen P. Cohen, a senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said by e-mail.
I believe that many reporters are getting quotes these days by email. Smart sources are insisting on it, as a way to control their words. It’s just the game. But it’s good for readers to know it. This can’t be a first. But it’s a great precedent.
