[lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 12 08:00:43 PDT 2006


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>Doug wrote: "A New Yorker fact-checker told me that they put Hersh
>through the wringer on his pieces. The magazine, already notorious for
>the rigor of its routine checking, goes into high gear for his stuff."
>
>Almost all claims made in the Seymour Hersh article about nuking Iran
><http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact> are based on
>anonymous sources. How can New Yorker fact-check stuff coming from
>anonymous sources like them?

Because he has to disclose the sources to his editor. You think they'd just run stuff on Hersh's word?

Doug



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