It happens every day in politics, government, and the corporate world. Suppose your competitor has a major skeleton in the closet. If the media wrote about the skeleton, the competitor would be embarrassed or eliminated. But the media will never know about it unless somebody tips them off. I m not a snitch.
Cops consider informers a necessary evil.
They don t respect them. That s because informers are usually the kind of people who should be in jail. Traitor Many in law enforcement think of informers as traitors who turn against people who trusted them. They ll sell their mothers if the price is right. Information from an informer is always suspect.