Your email address will not be published. Finally, he told Miller that she was not allowed to cover W.M.D. "That was pretty amazing to me. --Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Newsweek, 25 August 1986, p. 27. https://guides.library.cornell.edu/evaluate_news. In Farber's case, as in Miller's, the Times had waged a passionate crusade on its reporter's behalf, and for seemingly good reason: there is no greater sacrifice, and no greater test of the journalist's code of ethics, than going to jail for refusing to name a confidential source. So, it’s pretty important that these sources must be reliable and trustable.
Levy is what newshounds call a "doc" guy—he has a remarkable ability to pore through thousands of pages of complicated documents.
Adapted from definitions used by Melissa Zimdars' Open Sources project that classifies websites for credibility.. And that night she did another one with Lou Dobbs." Keller was right. George Freeman, the *Times'*s in-house counsel, and Floyd Abrams, the First Amendment lawyer who had argued for the *Times'*s right to publish the Pentagon Papers, in 1971, agreed. The answer to that dilemma, of course, is to always be consistent and truthful." There exist propaganda sites, which are more extreme example of biased information and even fake news. Earlier that day, reporters David Barstow and Adam Liptak and editor Jon Landman had gone out to lunch at Virgil's, a Times Square barbecue joint that Landman is especially fond of, to discuss putting together a report on Miller and her saga. People are free to write on whatever topic they desire. And Arthur was so oblivious he didn't care about the repercussions." Required fields are marked *. An unreliable source (which historians are warned about) is someone whose story may be skewed because of politics, etc. While Times editors repeatedly batted down Miller's story ideas, Miller continued to report on national security, continued to meet with her sources in the White House and in the intelligence community. The Fars news agency of Iran picked up the story and reprinted it as a real news story. Keller had already implicitly promised that the team would get full access to all areas of the newspaper.
Jerome Corsi, the Washington bureau chief for the conspiracy website, is somewhat infamous for peddling various conspiracy theories, including the racist birther theory popularized by now-President Donald Trump that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. "Her argument that waivers are by definition coercive was the right one.