"We will even consult with our journalist friends on the plane."

A Russian journalist friend thought that would be difficult.

Over the weekend, a journalist friend in London e-mailed us an article.

She asked a journalist friend to help her out.

A journalist friend told me, "That's a great idea, but no newspaper would ever do it."

Yet, I'm still hearing echoes about her "wimping out" from male journalist friends.

Through journalist friends, the former President has said he is ready to reconcile with his younger brother.

Even some of my most cynical journalist friends were voting.

So I had a journalist friend in Berlin do some checking for me.

The extent of the fact-checking process is especially surprising to Chinese journalist friends.