[browardchad]

The only sure way to separate fact from fiction is to ban all anonymous sources.

If that happens, newspapers will be reduced to four pages -- with advertising.

[mrustow]

You're right. "Anonymous sources" is a problematic area. But within a newspaper, if the veracity of a story depending on "anonymous sources" is challenged, the editor has to demand the names from the reporter. If the reporter still refuses, then the editor knows he's lying.

My beef with "anonymous sources" is that they tend to be powerful people who are s[pinning the story to their benefit, and in some cases, old friends of the reporter or editor. Meanwhile, media people love to sacrifice real whistleblowers, because they're just "the little people." Ever see the movie, Absence of Malice?

That's why people with crucial details that correct stories clam up, and mind their own business.