Democracy Dies in Anonymous Sourcing

longknife

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So many leakers do so anonymously so they don’t have to be held responsible for their near or fully treasonous actions. Every time we turn on tv news or read the press we see yet another claim of something evil or illegal the president or his administration did – by yet another “unnamed source.”

Once again, we don't know what. We don't even know if. How many times must we attend the same movie? As we've seen so many times since Trump became president, these are anonymous leaks coming from nameless, faceless people whose motives might be pure but could be poisonous.

One thing we do know: If news is defined as a quantifiable event, this isn't "news."

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