[lbo-talk] Fact-checking Anonymous Sources?

[Jim Devine]

> 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?

On 4/12/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Because he has to disclose the sources to his editor. You think
> they'd just run stuff on Hersh's word?

it sure seems as if the WaPo runs some stuff based on Woodward's word alone.
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