On 4/7/08, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn(a)fastmail.fm> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:18:16PM -0500, SlimVirgin
wrote:
But we have no idea most of the time whether what
our sources say is
accurate. All we can do is try to make sure we use good sources; use
in-line attribution wherever appropriate; and make sure our readers
can trace our line of reasoning so they can judge it for themselves.
Proposal: An editor who has no idea whether what a source says is
accurate really shouldn't be editing that article using that source.
That means we can never again cite the New York Times unless we've
personally contacted the source to make sure he really did say X, and
perhaps further, unless we've also checked out that not only did the
source say it, but that he was right to say it.
Sarah