Newsweek Retools Policies About Sources

Washington Post ^ | 5/22/05 | DESMOND BUTLER

[Valin]

NEW YORK -- Newsweek has adopted new policies for the use of anonymous sources, a week after retracting a report that claimed investigators had found evidence the Quran was desecrated by interrogators at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay.

In a letter to readers appearing in Monday's edition, Newsweek Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Richard Smith apologized for the report and said the magazine will raise standards for anonymous sourcing.

We got an important story wrong, and honor requires us to admit our mistake and redouble our efforts to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again," he wrote.

Two of the magazine's top editors will be assigned sole responsibility for approving the use of anonymous sources, and the magazine will stop using the phrase "sources said" to attribute information in stories, Smith said.

[Valin]

Newsweek: America is dead (U.S. Flag Shown in Trashcan on Cover!)
Riding Sun Blog ^ | 5/23/2005 01:17:00 | GaijinBiker

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/posts

Posted on 05/22/2005 1:12:32 PM CDT by FreedomCalls


Newsweek's false, retracted story about American guards flushing the Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo doesn't necessarily mean the magazine's staff hates America or Bush, or wants us to lose in Iraq. To be charitable, let's just chalk that one up to sloppy journalism.


(Click on link, stand by to get REALLY pissed)

[YaYa123]

We've been "tooled" by Newsweek, now we gonna get "re-tooled".
Dontcha love it?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

In a related story, housekeepers have decided to remodel the luxury suites on the Titanic.

[billorites]

"Newsweek has adopted new policies for the use of anonymous sources"

I'll bet they are!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

CORRECTED HEADLINE:

MARXIST-ISLAMIST TOOL RETOOLS....

[sgtbono2002]

Until next time.

[TGOGary]

Yea, its the policy of lets just print it and apologize later after we've sold a million copies.

[Right Angler]

Gotta love a headline with "Newsweek" and "tool" in it.

[TGOGary]

And the price of Fatback is at an all time low in Kentucky.

[Valin]

See #1

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Jam it, Newsweek. I swear you're going down (legally).

[Valin]

I'm doing what I can to spread this around

[ken21]

this is the same problem that cbs and danny rather had--

fantasy vs reality.

what they wish to be true and what is true

are 2 different things.

[Popman]

Newsweek Retools Policies About Sources

How about just checking your sources instead of making crap up

[commonasdirt]

Since their source standards were substandard, how far will they raise them now? to mediocre? barely credible?

[billorites]

I don't read Japanese, but I think I get the gist.

[Chgogal]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/posts?page=17#17

THE 3 FACES OF NEWSWEEK

[Chgogal]

WHOOPS!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1408214/posts?page=17#17

[stm]

What kind of band of idiots would print an predictably inflammatory article from an "anonymous source"?

Oh yeah, I forgot, the same band of idiots that would print anything to discredit our President and the US Military. Accuracy be damned.