Anonymous Sources

Jason Linkins

Rahm Emanuel 'Bedeviling' News Organizations With His Name

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media


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...

The Media Stovepipe

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


Matt Osborne

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.

Jason Linkins

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media


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

Jason Linkins

Anonymous White House Sources Praise White House In Important Journalistic Scoop

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media


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

Jason Linkins

WaPo Unleashes Army Of Anonymous Sources To Slag Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.19.2009 | Media


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...

Famed Anonymous Anti-Palin Blogger 'Outed' by Lawmaker

Dawn Teo | Posted 04.28.2009 | Media


Dawn Teo

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.

Jason Linkins

Annals Of Unnamed Sourcery

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2008 | Media


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...