A front-page story in The New York Times on Thursday was striking in several regards. It reported a "sobering new assessment" of the U.S. war effort in Iraq. It thus contradicted the tone of much of
the same paper's coverage from Iraq this year (until recently). And, in a week when the use of anonymous sources is drawing unprecedented scrutiny and criticism, it was based mainly on just those
kinds of sources.
Read the whole story at Editor and Publisher, May 19, 2005 »