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Wiseduck5 t1_ixfp8qj wrote

Reply to comment by Agent_Angelo_Pappas in Associated Press reporter fired over erroneous story on Russian attack by Moynamama

>For anonymous sources they can’t really ask who the source is without compromising anonymity,

Incorrect. Editors normally know the identity of the anonymous sources.

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enonmouse t1_ixfyath wrote

Not only that they usually corroborate information with secondary sources particularly when it is this portentous... this was a hatchet job.

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