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Refusing to play the sourcing charade

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Robert Asahina

A New York Times story (February 9, 2011) on the internal debate at the Century Club over its ties to the all-male Garrick club in London shows how anonymous sources should be properly characterized:

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The sourcing charade (continued)

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Robert Asahina

Some newspapers and media commentators belatedly addressed the shortcomings of anonymous sourcing several years ago. But the practice had been all too common for decades before then, and it continues today as if it had never been called into question.

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