A "longtime reliable source, a senior U.S. government official who was knowledgeable about the matter" told Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff that U.S. military investigators would include in their written report that American guards at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Quran down a toilet in an effort to get detainees to talk. Ted Vaden, public editor of The News & Observer in Raleigh, wrote a column answering readers who had asked why the paper did not report that the Bush administration had concluded there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
A survey of 4,800 news sources cited in fourteen newspapers provides a cross-market assessment of newspaper accuracy and the effect of errors on newspaper credibility. Sources found errors in 61% of local news and feature stories, an inaccuracy rate among the highest reported in nearly seventy years of accuracy research. Newspaper credibility, as perceived by news sources, significantly declined in relation to frequency and severity of errors. Inaccuracy negatively affected source willingness to cooperate with the press. Subjective errors were considered most egregious, suggesting that how a story is conveyed is at least as important as getting the facts straight.
... Service must be satisfied with the credibility of the sources of documentation submitted in suppo...
Newsweek's admission this week that its (literally) explosive report was wrong about Americans desecrating a Quran raises again the issue of anonymous sources. At least 17 people died in riots in Afghanistan, and Pakistan shook from massive street protests, all touched off by the story based on an assertion by an unidentified U.S. government official who has since told Newsweek he couldn't be sure of his information.
Courts have yet to reach a consensus on the proper standard for distinguishing among bloggers with respect to shield laws-statutes that prevent the compelled disclosure of confidential sources. This note questions the prudence of standards that base protection on how closely bloggers imitate the institutions whose authority they are challenging.
The prize-winning series that won the New York Times Co a Pulitzer has an interesting backstory. The series, published in Jan 2003 after an investigation by the Times' David Barstow and Lowell Bergman, WGBH's Frontline, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, exposed safety violations that led to injury and death at pipe foundries owned by McWane Industries. Now, Mike Adams, a McWane Industries subcontractor is filing, a libel suit in which he disputes the credibility of the Times' sources, denies quotes attributed to him, and claims his business was destroyed. But Charles Babcock, a Dallas-based lawyer who represents the Times, said that the research was incredibly thorough, the people involved were dedicated, diligent, and conscientious and the plaintiff is almost surely a public figure.
For all the charges of deception against the Bush administration over the war, the one easiest to check has been the repeated White House statement that Democratic critics saw the same intelligence as the administration before the fighting began. White House and Pentagon officials repeatedly made flat statements about the Iraqi threat without disclosing private doubts about the credibility of sources and documents. Some examples:
THE NEW JEFF GEORGE? It has been reported that the Washington Redskins are one of several teams interested in trading for Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, who is being described as angry, disgruntled and disenchanted. He is also talented. The Redskins issued the standard denial, but given their colorful history of player acquisitions and the credibility of the reporter, who strongly vouched for his sources, the notion is not farfetched.
From a broader historical perspective, the period of 1970 to 2000 also included the end of the Vietnam War era, the rise of political conservatives led by President Reagan, the end of the Cold War era and fall of the Soviet Union, the emergence of personal computers and new media and the reconfiguration of the American and world economies. [...] the appearance of an unnamed source often signals a political effort to manage the news, something that would have been consistent with the communication goals of the Reagan White House.25 Reinforcing the idea of an apparent relationship between presidencies and media sourcing trends, Kaiser stressed that the nature of government leadership, the White House as well as Congress, influences how reporters use anonymity.
... statements and may tarnish a story's credibility.1 But other journalists consider the ability to ke...
They say the way to maintain your sanity is not to sweat the small stuff. Well, that's rarely an option for public editors. Not if they take their jobs seriously. Not if they want to build media credibility. Sometimes, we handle major issues of fairness, accuracy and balance: A story - due to sloppy reporting, faulty sources, or both - misrepresents the actions of a body or individual, the words of one person are erroneously attributed to another, or a false obituary or letter bearing a non-writer's name is published.
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