On Wednesday Glenn Greenwald took Joe Klein to task for journalistic improprieties. Greenwald distills the issue brilliantly:
the very idea of granting anonymity to government sources to do nothing other than repeat pro-government claims is both manipulative and moronic on its face. What possible journalistic value could there ever be in cloaking someone with anonymity in order to say something that Tony Snow would happily say, and does say, every day from the White House Press Briefing Room?
Amazingly, most journalists in Washington, DC don't agree with Greenwald.
© Jed Lewison