I think Mulder is probably in the wrong line of work. For all the access that his FBI badge brings him, any hard "evidence" he could ever hope to secure would just end up being warehoused in a crate next to the Ark of the Covenant. Maybe the idea was that he'd leak it to the Lone Gunmen so they could put it in their crummy little mimeographed fanzine, and I'm sure that would really make all the Muggles sit up and take notice. Or perhaps he'd drop it off at the New York Times offices a la the ending of Firestarter. Ah, such an innocent age...
I think history has shown that the only foolproof method for Getting The Word Out is a symbiotic partnership between a Crusading Journalist and a Sympathetic Insider Who Leaks Like A Sieve. Since The X-Files only had half that equation, Mulder's quest was probably doomed from the outset. And if he'd actually had an ally in the press, Mulder himself would have been almost redundant, since Deep Throat and Mister X could just feed their scoops directly to the reporter in question. I guess in the long run, it might have made sense for Mulder to either succeed Throat and X as the leaking insider, or drop out of the Bureau and become a crusading crank reporter.
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Date: 2006-11-10 09:46 pm (UTC)I think history has shown that the only foolproof method for Getting The Word Out is a symbiotic partnership between a Crusading Journalist and a Sympathetic Insider Who Leaks Like A Sieve. Since The X-Files only had half that equation, Mulder's quest was probably doomed from the outset. And if he'd actually had an ally in the press, Mulder himself would have been almost redundant, since Deep Throat and Mister X could just feed their scoops directly to the reporter in question. I guess in the long run, it might have made sense for Mulder to either succeed Throat and X as the leaking insider, or drop out of the Bureau and become a crusading crank reporter.