A Cbs Story 'Too Important to Ignore' - but Filled with Gaping Holes

Augusta Chronicle, The › February 05, 2007

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Let us contemplate some wisdom from a media ethics expert quoted by The New York Times this week:

"To most journalists, the notion of anonymous reporters relying on anonymous sources is a red flag. 'If you want to talk about a business model that is designed to manufacture mischief in large volume, that would be it,' said Ralph Whitehead Jr., a professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts."

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A Cbs Story 'Too Important to Ignore' - but Filled with Gaping Holes

No, he wasn't talking about the Associated Press' (and The Washington Post's and the Los Angeles Times' and The New York Times') anonymous stringers relying on unnamed and unreliable sources reporting (or rather, r...

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