It's a ridiculous question, Carranza. What is "journalistic integrity"? If you have a hithertofore reliable source, and you accurately print what that source reports to you, then that's all that's required, by my standards.
"Joe Blow told me XYZ." True or false?
If you wait for the official White House version, you'll be waiting for a lot of smoke to be blown up your tuchus, and somebody else will get the story about, oh, My Lai, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Whitewater, or the Little Blue Dress.
God bless men like Sy Hersch. If he's wrong, I hope he did the best he could, and if he didn't, he's toast. |
