Chalabi (and news sources generally)

Tuesday, 1 June 2004, 16:07

New York magazine:

If [Judy] Miller is an extreme example of the Times’ ultracompetitive mind-set, she is also an example of an inherent problem of journalism: its reliance on sources.

This is especially true when the key source is a now-discredited head of the Iraqi National Congress, but why isn’t the New York Times controversy prompting broader questions about the universal problem of journalists’ reliance on sources with vested interests?

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