Reporters challenge McClellan on soruces, Newsweek

[paineinthearse]

His sources good, their sources bad? In the wake of the Newsweek scandal, reporters at today's press briefing asked the White House spokesman how he can be so critical of single, anonymous sources when he insists reporters use them in his own backgrounders. They also ask what exactly he wants Newsweek to do now, and is the White House exerting undue pressure?

(Editor & Publisher)
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000922215

Also see:
** WHITE HOUSE CRITICIZES USE OF ANONYMOUS SOURCES
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/nationworld/articles/1553396.html

** USA TODAY DRASTICALLY REDUCES USE OF ANONYMOUS SOURCES
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000926912

[applegrove]

1. Yup - it is an attack on anonymous sources..the one area they do

not control.

[Robbien]

2. Were they set up

inda Weltner, former Boston Globe Columnist for 19 years, and member of the class-action lawsuit which the Boston Globe Freelancers' Association lost in court, writes:

"I have no doubt that both the person who gave Dan Rather faulty information and this Pentagon spokesman set up CBS and Newsweek. Even if the informants were considered reliable sources, who's to say that someone didn't hand them what was described as truthful information.

"Just wait a few months. They've hit TV and magazines; a major newspaper is next. Big media think being subservient will protect them, but subservient isn't good enough for this bunch."

[grasswire]

3. from which article was that quote?

There's a gal who "gets" it.