re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did you miss the part where I said as an editor I want to know every source and verify everything in a story, even if I keep things anonymous? Have you missed the other old school reporters and editors who actually defied court orders to reveal sources and actually went to fecking jail???

I’m here to tell you, in the last three decades people have approached my reporters with “hot must tell stories”, and I do NOT have a problem with that, but I sure as hell am NOT going to allow unverified stuff to be reported as fact.

If my organization is going to publish something as fact, then I damned well demand to know where those facts are coming from and be able to verify them.

Sorry if that bothers you.

BTW, it shouldn’t make any difference, but I’m a rape survivor.

I understand your position, but I am of the opinion that the fewer people who know identities in sensitive stories like this, the fewer people who may be inclined to spill the beans. I would have no problem with the reporter and his/her editor knowing. Extending that to the copy editor is, IMHO, problematic. But that is just my personal opinion.