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		 Anonymous sources are as reputable as the journalists and media outlets who use them.  I am more likely to trust that the New York Times or Christian Science Monitor verified a source and is protecting that source than if the New York Post does it.  I agree that a name gives value to information as a commodity, and if the source is not that name, the institution that uses the source becomes that name. 
		
		
		
		
		
		
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