The anonymous ‘heroes’ of the Resistance
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Wednesday, May 17, 2017
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Anonymous sources may not always be reliable, but they’re always convenient. More than that, anonymous accounts are usually made of putty, soft and easily shaped. Not only that, an anonymous source never claims he was misquoted. He never demands a correction or a retraction. The Washington Post, which deals in anonymous sources for many of its blockbuster disclosures, is particularly skilled at working with anonymous sources, and gets more out of them than almost any other newspaper.
Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein fame, once based a blockbuster on an interview with a man in a deep coma, and at the point of death. He wasn’t actually anonymous, but he never disputed anything in Mr. Woodward’s version of their “conversation.”
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