If "I'm worried people on Twitter will attack me" becomes an accepted reason for granting sources anonymity, there will be no reason for anyone to go on the record ever againpic.twitter.com/Pfe2zeCOVq
and if journalists stop granting anonymity pieces like this will no longer exist
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it happens all the time. we just killed a piece last week because a source backed out of using his name. the standard at NYT, LAT and many other outlets has always been no anonymity without a good reason and we usually adhere to it
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in this case, the world wouldn't be any the poorer this piece didn't exist
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