Anonymous Sources

Anonymous Sources Welcomed At Leveson

AP | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Press Ethics, Leveson, Phone Hacking, Lord Leveson, British Tabloids, Media Ethics, Phone Hacking Scandal, Leveson Inquiry Press Ethics, Anonymous Sources, Ap, Leveson Inquiry, British Press, Media News

LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court says reporters can give evidence to a media ethics inquiry anonymously — rejecting a bid by a newspaper publish...

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Awesomest Anonymous Source In History Fingers Rahm For Cain Sexual Harassment Story

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Eat the Press, Herman Cain 2012, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Allegations, Rahm Emanuel, 2012 Election, Herman Cain, Elections 2012, Media Criticism, Anonymous Sources, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, 2012, Media News

In September, I wrote about the transition of the generations between actors and how we're at a moment where we can see it happening.

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Debt Ceiling Stories Use Anonymous Sources, According To Newspaper That Uses Anonymous Sources

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Media Criticism, Debt Ceiling, Anonymous Sources, Media News

Reporters in Washington pretty much rely on anonymous sources to write their stories, because reporters need zazzy and divisive comments from people l...

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Adventures In Anonymous Sourcery: Rick Perry Might Do Something, Who Knows?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: 2012 Speculatron, 2012 Speculation, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Media Criticism, Anonymous Sources, Rick Perry, 2012, Media News

What's going on with the Rick Perry campaign, which may or may not be a thing? According to the Wall Street Journal, the answer is definitely somethin...

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NYT's Anonymous 'Person On A Blog' Revealed To Be Random Anonymous Blog Commenter

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anonymous blog commenters: I'm sure they are nice people, but please do not use them as sources, especially in such a misleading fashion.

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Random Anonymous People With Unidentified Blogs Are Apparently Allowed To Be Sources For The New York Times

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Obama, Breastfeeding, Media Criticism, New York Times, Eat the Press, Michele Bachmann, Blogger Sources, New York Times Anonymous Source, New York TImes Sources, Anonymous Sources, Media News

This piece is very typical of political writing: there's an argument, that argument is easily resolved by the simple assertion of objective fact, but let's focus on the argument instead of the resolution because all the arguing is so exciting!

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Anonymous Sources Tell Ed Henry That Something Might Happen At The White House At Some Point

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palace Intrigue, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Larry Summers, Schrodinger's Cat, Speculation, Media Criticism, Pete Rouse, Ed Henry, Bill Daley, Eat the Press, Anonymous Sources, Media News

So, here's what you need to know about the pending decision on who will fill the role of White House Chief of Staff for the Obama administration: the ...

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2010: The Year In Wall Street Whining To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings, Mostly Anonymously

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Financial Regulatory Reform, Politico, Wall Street, Media Criticism, Perspective or the Lack Thereof, Anonymous Sources, Barack Obama, Financial Collapse, Video, Media News

You know, the other day, when I remarked that Politico's story "another piece in a continuing series" of "Wall Street people whining," I wasn't kidding. A whole lot of times, actually.

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Sarah Palin's Anonymous Source Hypocrisy: She's Used Them Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politico, Eat the Press, Anonymous Sources, Media Criticism, Sarah Palin, Media News

For the past few days, Sarah Palin has been beefing with Politico after Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei published an article about how the GOP establishme...

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NYT's Anonymous Sourcery: The Deep Background Compliment

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The intrepid New York Times watchdogs over at The NYTPicker today highlight a unique moment in the history of anonymous sourcery.

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Left Unsaid: Obama, the Bushes, the CIA, and the Media

Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Cia, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, New York Times, Media, Jeb Bush, Iraq, Anonymous Sources, American Legion, Barack Obama, Politics News

Presumably, Obama called Bush -- because in a tough midterm election year he would like to emphasize the bipartisan nature of his foreign policy. But it would be nice to know more about how and why these tidbits emerge.

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Washington Post Ombudsman: Anonymous Sources 'Remain A Problem' For Newspaper

Washington Post | Andrew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Post's internal policies set a high threshold for granting anonymity. It "should not be done casually or automatically." Further, "merely asking s...

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All the News that's Fit to Leak

Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muckraker, New York Times, WikiLeaks Afghanistan, Journolist, Anonymous Sources, Afghanistan, Wikileaks, Media News

The coverage of the WikiLeaks controversy has become a debate over the precise shade of morally gray to assign to WikiLeaks's possible endangerment of...

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Politico's Anonymous Sources: A Lesson In Absurdity

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mitt Romney, Media Criticism, Anonymous Sources, Sarah Palin, Eat the Press, Media News

Here's your great achievement in the field of anonymous sourcing for the week of July 12th. It comes in a story in Politico today (the content of which is utterly irrelevant to your lives).

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Rahm Emanuel Leaving The White House: Sooner Or Later, Maybe Or Not!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rahm Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel Rumors, Media Criticism, Anonymous Sources, Eat the Press, Media News

So, okay, let's talk about the whole "Rahm Emanuel is going to quit in six or eight months" thing. Everyone who covers the White House is behaving as...

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Public Editor Clark Hoyt: NYT 'Misusing Anonymous Sources'

New York Times | CLARK HOYT | Posted 05.25.2011

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THE Times continues to hurt itself with readers by misusing anonymous sources....

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

We've seen this pattern before. A non-sourced, anonymous story enters the right-wing blogosphere and gets picked up by mainstream media, allowing the right to stovepipe their insanity.

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The TSA's Behavior Is a Disgrace

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transportation Security Administration, Anonymous Sources, Terrorism, Free Speech, Media News

Would it be too much to ask the TSA to use its agents to make Americans safer instead of threatening bloggers who publish widely distributed memos that should have been public anyway?

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Mark Halperin Really, Really Thinks His Anonymously Sourced Scoop Is Super Important!

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Anonymous Sources, Mark Halperin, Media Criticism, Eat the Press, Media News

It's been brought to my attention that yesterday, Halperin published a SUPER-DOOPER IMPORTANT HEALTH CARE SCOOPLET.

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Rahm Emanuel 'Bedeviling' News Organizations With His Name

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard makes note of the curious way that news organizations choose to identify White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, whose v...

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Anonymous White House Sources Praise White House In Important Journalistic Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald tore apart a piece of stenographic PR that ran in the Washington Post. Titled "Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balan...

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WaPo Unleashes Army Of Anonymous Sources To Slag Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Public Option, Anonymous Sources, Media Criticism, Eat the Press, Media News

I've said for a long time now that the press has long endeavored to diminish the public support for the "public option," characterizing it as one of t...

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Famed Anonymous Anti-Palin Blogger 'Outed' by Lawmaker

Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Little was known about Palin in the lower 48, and AKMuckraker provided a much-needed window throughout the campaign season into Palin's performance as governor of Alaska from a progressive viewpoint.

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Annals Of Unnamed Sourcery

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Late last month, Alex Balk of Radar found, in this Politico article, one of the most hilarious lines of attribution I'd ever read. In an article repl...

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