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To: Sully- who wrote (63995)	2/13/2008 1:26:25 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Reliable Sources Best of the Web Today by JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:44 p.m. EST This may be the best example ever of this genre. From a New York Times report on Hillary Clinton's struggling campaign: <<< "She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she's out," said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. "The campaign is starting to come to terms with that." Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view. >>> Long ago, the Times adopted a policy of urging its reporters to explain why they were allowing sources to speak without attribution. The idea is that readers deserve to have enough information to make judgments about the source's motives and reliability. Here, though, reporter Patrick Healy is essentially saying that his sources are speaking anonymously because they want to tell the truth--in other words, that they are trustworthy precisely because they are too cowardly to stand behind their own comments. It's the best encapsulation we've seen of the whole anonymous-source scam. opinionjournal.com