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September 28, 2005

Isikoff on Confidential Sources

By Amanda Lang

Veteran Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff has some provocative things to say about the relationship between journalists and their confidential sources. And they're not the kinds of things that would likely sit well with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who's been in jail for 83 days because she refuses to give up her source or sources in the Valerie Plame investigation, or Time magazine's Matthew Cooper, who nearly went to ...

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Veteran Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff has some provocative things to say about the relationship between journalists and their confidential sources. And they're not the kinds of things that would likely sit well with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who's been in jail for 83 days because she refuses to give up her source or sources in the Valerie Plame investigation, or Time magazine's Matthew Cooper, who nearly went to jail in the same probe.

Authors Bio:

OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.

Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.


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