Article: Anonymous sources cost newspapers credibility

BY SARAH JENKINS

Herald-Republic Editor

I am surprised to learn that Tonya Harding has taken up journalism.

What else explains last week's knee-capping of Sen. John McCain by The New York Times? Obviously, the bad girl of figure skating has been given a corner office at Times headquarters.

-- Leonard Pitts Jr., columnist with the Miami Herald, Feb. 27

I didn't intend to write a column about John McCain and the New York Times. I thought a columnist more gifted at turning the clever phrase -- like Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald -- would say it better (and I was right). Or a writer like Froma Harrop of the Providence Journal would do a better job of zeroing in on the inherent sexism of the ...