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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (104337)5/16/2005 11:31:42 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Journalists do try to get at least two sources. But there are occasions, like this one, when only one high government official saw the report where the Quoran flushing was discussed, from what I understand from watching the news and reading several articles about it. This really is not uncommon, although the public is demanding less anonymously sourced journalism. But if you read the articles I just posted about the Newsweek debacle, the Bush administration itself insists on playing this game.

I really do try to be fair and objective. If I thought Newsweek had really committed an error, I would be the first to say so. I thought the CBS/Dan Rather situation was just deplorable, and lost all respect for them.

Newsweek thought it had verified the story by other means when a Pentagon official read the entire article before it was printed. So it wasn't publishing a story based on one anonymous source.
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