New documentary on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange highlights big stakes for all journalists
It has been four years this week since Julian Assange was imprisoned in London’s Belmarsh Prison, held in a legal……
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Journalism’s Never-Ending Debate on Anonymous Sources: Enough Already!
BY GEORGE SALAMON / Just this past Sunday journalism’s unceasing debate on anonymous sources reared its head again. In the October 13 Sunday Review section of The New York Times Margaret Sullivan, the paper’s fifth public editor, wrote about “The Disconnect on Anonymous Sources.” Dan Okrent, first public editor from 2003 to 2005, confronted the same issue during his tenure. Even then, novelist and New York magazine columnist Kurt Andersen had already had enough: “…the customary righteousness, disingenuousness, futility and wonky tedium of such debates are for me almost unbearable.”