If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

It was accountability that Nixon feared.

Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Way before Watergate, senior administration officials hid behind anonymity.