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Orville Schell says the image that journalists want to promote is that anonymous sources are "honorable people putting themselves at risk to leak important information for the public good." With the San Francisco Chronicle's BALCO stories, "we find an anonymous source is something of a scoundrel." ||
TIM RUTTEN: "Conspiring with somebody you know is actively perverting the administration of justice to your mutual advantage is a betrayal of the public interest whose protection is the only basis on which journalistic privilege of any sort has a right to assert itself.
