Roy Occhiogrosso, senior adviser to Dan Malloy’s gubernatorial campaign, reacted today to Kevin Rennie’s blog report about a film crew that set up this week in front of Malloy’s Stamford home. Occhiogrosso:“Two pretty simple questions for Ned Lamont: did your campaign pay to have someone film and take photographs of Dan Malloy’s house? If so, why?” In his post, Rennie recalled that four years ago, Malloy was cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation into improvements to the property, located in the Shippan section of the city.
Why did you print this comment when you have no idea whether or not the Lamont campaign sent a film crew to Malloy’s house or not? Why infer that he did when you have no evidence that Lamont did so? Aren’t you, as a “professional journalist”, charged with actually finding and printing the facts about a story, not simply regurgitating rumors?
The person you quote is hardly a reputable source on Democratic politics, as a former Republican legislator. And he supplies no more hard facts than you do. Indeed, he simply writes innuendo: “Prime suspect: the Lamont campaign.”
Aren’t you, as a “journalist”, supposed to hold yourself to a higher standard than innuendo, even on your blog? Or is that what you really believe is professional journalism?