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Old 04-19-2004, 07:07 PM
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Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
In undergrad, I was a broadcast journalism major. In the second major class I took was Media Writing, the professor said the only way one should use an anonymous source is if they had 3 other credible sources to back up what the anonymous source said. Basically, use the anonymous source as a lead-type source.

Ya'll are good to catch onto the anonymous sources not being very credible. If they wouldn't expose their names, who's not to say the author isn't just writing a fictional story?

Too bad not many of the readers will even have that thought cross their mind.


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