Anonymous Sources Welcomed At Leveson
LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court says reporters can give evidence to a media ethics inquiry anonymously — rejecting a bid by a newspaper publish...
LONDON (AP) — Britain's High Court says reporters can give evidence to a media ethics inquiry anonymously — rejecting a bid by a newspaper publish...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.03.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2011
Reporters in Washington pretty much rely on anonymous sources to write their stories, because reporters need zazzy and divisive comments from people l...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.23.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Anonymous blog commenters: I'm sure they are nice people, but please do not use them as sources, especially in such a misleading fashion.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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!
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
The intrepid New York Times watchdogs over at The NYTPicker today highlight a unique moment in the history of anonymous sourcery.
Russ Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Washington Post | Andrew Alexander | Posted 05.25.2011
The Post's internal policies set a high threshold for granting anonymity. It "should not be done casually or automatically." Further, "merely asking s...
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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).
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
New York Times | CLARK HOYT | Posted 05.25.2011
THE Times continues to hurt itself with readers by misusing anonymous sources....
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.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
It's been brought to my attention that yesterday, Halperin published a SUPER-DOOPER IMPORTANT HEALTH CARE SCOOPLET.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, Glenn Greenwald tore apart a piece of stenographic PR that ran in the Washington Post. Titled "Obama Team Says Zazi Case Illustrates Balan...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
AP | Posted 03.21.2012