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One resignation after another, reliance on anonymous sources continues to claim high-profile journalists. ... As Neuharth noted, reliance by American news media on unnamed sources “can be traced to the ’70s when The Times followed the example of The Washington Post in soliciting anonymous sources [for example, ‘Deep Throat’] during the Watergate era.” |
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