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Greenwald followup by Simon Owens

At Bloggasm, Simon Owens has published a very thorough followup to the Glenn Greenwald piece that I blogged recently. Owens spoke with Greenwald:

He compared this hypothetical investigation to ones initiated by other news outlets when reporters had botched stories or false information was published.

"I think first of all that this is a basic principal of journalism, that if you get a story wrong, you explain what happened that led to the bad reporting," Greenwald told me. "That’s what the New York Times did to explain how they got those Judy Miller stories wrong. When people get stories wrong, the credibility of the journalistic outlet depends upon them explaining what happened. If Brian Ross wants to say, ‘our sources acted in good faith, they just got it wrong,’ then he needs to explain the basis of that."

jon posted this at 6:16 PM
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