Analysis: Journalism and the use of anonymous sources

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From: NPR Talk of the Nation
Date: 20050516
Author:FRANK STASIO

FRANK STASIO
NPR Talk of the Nation
05-16-2005
Analysis: Journalism and the use of anonymous sources

Host: FRANK STASIO
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM

FRANK STASIO, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Frank Stasio in Washington, sitting in for Neal Conan.

Yesterday Newsweek magazine backed away from an item in a recent issue reporting evidence that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Koran. American officials say the story is to blame for deadly riots in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world. The original piece quoted an anonymous source, who claimed that investigations ...

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