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On the condition of anonymity : unnamed sources and the battle for journalism / Matt Carlson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carlson, Matt, 1977-
- Series:
- History of communication.
- The history of communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attribution of news.
- Reporters and reporting--United States.
- Reporters and reporting.
- Journalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Journalism.
- Journalistic ethics--United States.
- Journalistic ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Matt Carlson confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the problems-and promise-of unnamed sources
- Media culpas : prewar reporting mistakes at the New York times and Washington post
- "Blogs 1, CBS 0" : 60 minutes and the Killian memos controversy
- Journalists fight back : Newsweek and the Koran abuse story
- Deep Throat and the question of motives
- "Journalism on trial" : confidentiality and the Plame leak case
- Rethinking anonymity : problems and solutions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613070159
- 9781283070157
- 1283070154
- 9780252093180
- 0252093186
- OCLC:
- 741558448
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