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It's actually a recent phenomenon to rely on anonymous sources as a matter of course, and the stories end up being wrong all the time. E.g. NYT reporting on WMD
by dilap 6y ago
It's actually a recent phenomenon to rely on anonymous sources as a matter of course, and the stories end up being wrong all the time. E.g. NYT reporting on WMDs leading up to Iraq war, the Guardian's report that Manafort visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy (and a gazillion other Russiagate non-stories)...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/public-editor/the-risk-of-unnamed-sources-unconvinced-readers.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/public-editor/the-risk-of...
- threeseed 6y agoSo your claim is that up until 2003 journalists were routinely revealing the sources they base stories on ? That's so patently ridiculous so some evidence on your part would be useful. Because we know that many of the biggest stories of all time e.g. Watergate (1972) relied on anonymous whistleblowers.
- dilap 6y agoNo, that's not my claim.