On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:39:38 -0400, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Fine, but it's still a primary source, and I
have not yet found any
> secondary sources which have picked this up as significant. Like
> Zeleny's allegations over Min Zhu, really.
A primary source would be the court documents or the
video. A news
story about it is a secondary source. Not that the primary/secondary
distinction seems to be useful for most of our purposes, since A)
it's misused about half the time it comes up, and B) it has very
little to do with reliability.
In this case I would say the newspaper is the primary source of the
story. It draws on other primary sources for parts of it, but the
story is clearly based on novel synthesis by the paper; investigative
journalism is not a secondary source according to my understanding.
Guy (JzG)
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