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Newsweek Anonymous Source Watch
Newsweek continues using anonymous sources week after week, including this week's story on Karl Rove and the Plame controversy: (The e-mail was authenticated by a source intimately familiar with Time's editorial handling of the Wilson story, but who has asked not to be identified because of the magazine's corporate decision not to disclose its contents.) And: A source close to Rove, who declined to be identified because he did not wish to run afoul of the prosecutor or government investigators, added that there was "absolutely no inconsistency" between Cooper's e-mail and what Rove has testified to during his three grand-jury appearances in the case.The magazine provides more detail on the anonymous sources than simply "sources said," but continues to use anonymous sources in covering a story about anonymous sources, after promising it would be more judicious about its use of anonymous sources. By Ed Moltzen · 10 July 2005
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