CNN interviews NYT editor: why anonomous sources are necessary in news about Trump
Great interview with NYT editor that covers a lot of ground. Also a shorter article. Couldn't get video link to post video but you can access it in link below.
"These are not people who pull us aside because they want to screw Donald Trump," Dean Baquet, the newspaper's executive editor, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday. "These are people who are worried about the direction of government."
Trump has repeatedly blasted the use of anonymous sources in critical stories about his administration.
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"In an administration that has expressed so much distaste for the press and so much distaste for our role, are you surprised that some of the people who want to criticize the administration want to do it without their names attached?" Baquet asked Sunday. "I'm not."
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"I always know who the sources are for these stories. That's why I'm so confident pushing back at the Trump administration when they criticize the stories," he said. "As long as the stories are accurate, as long as the stories are true, which so far has been the case, and as long as we offer the right perspective, I think that's fine."
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/26/media/new-york-times-editor-dean-baquet-anonymous-sources/index.html
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