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The price of anonymous sources: Error hits LATimes' Clemens claim
The Los Angeles Times blew a story more than a year ago that reported a federal affidavit claimed seven-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens used steroids. How and why did that happen? Fourteen months...
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Sen. McCain and sex? It only seemed like a good story
Perhaps the most disingenuous word a journalist can deploy is seemed. My newsroom godfather taught me that the use of seemed, seems or other forms of the word means the reporter is guessing, that the...
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Newspaper circulation falls again: Expect more cuts
If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a year ago....
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Journalists’ use of anonymous sources now an epidemic of deceit
Too many news organizations, despite their own policies, grant anonymity far too often, allowing sources with agendas to escape responsibility for what they say. Two words in a news story should...
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CNN (and others) and its overuse of anonymity: There’s more to the story …
First, there’s this headline: Secret Service spoke to Trump campaign about 2nd Amendment comment Then there’s this lede graf: (CNN) — A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has...
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Unnamed sources? Journalists should teach readers why they were used
On Thursday, four journalists for CNN reported: The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the...
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