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The New York Times pretends it has a policy against using unnamed sources that readers should respect. Times readers don’t, its own ombudsman (“public editor” Margaret Sullivan) doesn’t (as I noted just a month ago), and I’ve been making fun of it for years.
Or spike the policy. We all understand people like to blab and not get caught and that these people are a reporter’s best friends. Skip the excuses that insult our intelligence.
