Off the record: the press, the government, and the war over anonymous sources

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Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of the press itself. When Pearlstine—as editor in chief of Time Inc.—agreed to give prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter's notes of a conversation with a "confidential source," he was vilified for betraying the freedom of the press.

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