The Visalia Times-Delta runs a piece by the paper’s executive editor, Linda Green, about the way sources - specifically unnamed ones - are utilized in that particular paper. Green, like other editors, believe that they are doing the right thing when they use these sources in their publication - she says “We should be able to simply agree to withhold someone’s name.”
As a news reader, I would feel confident with an editor who clearly stated when and why an anonymous source would be used as a resource. But with the criticism (much of it deserved) that our media has taken recently, is this the case for most people?
