Re: Fact-checking Anonymous Sources?
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Doug wrote: “A New Yorker fact-checker told me that they put Hersh through the wringer on his pieces. The magazine, already notorious for the rigor of its routine checking, goes into high gear for his stuff.”
Almost all claims made in the Seymour Hersh article about nuking Iran http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060417fa_fact are based on anonymous sources. How can New Yorker fact-check stuff coming from anonymous sources like them?
Because he has to disclose the sources to his editor. You think they’d just run stuff on Hersh’s word?
Doug