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Report Slams Washington Post's Unprofessional Middle East Coverage
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Robert Satloff - One way to evaluate the professionalism of Gaza war coverage in major U.S. media is to look at the use of anonymous sources in Gaza war reporting. One outlet - the Washington Post - stands out from all the others. The Washington Institute created a database of all stories on the Gaza war that included anonymous sourcing during the first six months of the conflict by seven leading U.S. media platforms: the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and CNN. While 379 stories drew from an anonymous or confidential source who was a government or organizational official, just 57 stories cited local people as anonymous sources. But the Washington Post was responsible for 72% of all the citations of unofficial anonymous sources - more than five times as many as the New York Times and all the other major U.S. media platforms combined. The writer is executive director of The Washington Institute.