But it might have more credence when juxtaposed with efforts like Pennsylvania's to tilt the system.
He also wonders if the Warren Commission report would have more credence if the hearings had been televised.
"I think if you go back three or four years, it had more credence," one major label's head of press tells me.
That stance would have more credence if her predecessor had not bowed and scraped to Fifa, calling the BBC "unpatriotic" in the process for broadcasting a critical documentary, in an effort to secure the 2018 World Cup.
"I think the argument was that the story would get more attention and have more credence once it was in The [New York] Times or The Post," Baquet told The Huffington Post in an email.
This statement would appear to have more credence for the global extractive industry judging by the increasing number of transnational transparency initiatives, ambit of transnational legislation, the growing emphasis on corporate governance and relatively recent multinational prosecutions of companies such as Baker Hughes, Halliburton, ABB, Vetco Gray, Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Siemens.
And it could give more credence to claims that those who have done the most "eating" in these years are in fact those rather closer to the president's inner circle.
It had always frustrated her, she said, that he seemed to give more credence to what his aides told him than to what she said.
Levie went on to say that the growth was driven in large part by the introduction of some new products that have greatly expanded the company's market reach and helped give more credence to that content management messaging.
In Britain, we had the MMR triple jab controversy during which media outlets tended to give more credence than was due to a single campaigner, Andrew Wakefield, who produced a fraudulent research paper that claimed the vaccine caused autism.
