On Friday we will cover a talk by two Catholic priests who have experience in Iraq. As it now stands, it will be in the Presidents Room (L15) at noon and it will replace the Friday writing assignment I mentioned previously. Any updates I will post to this blog.
We have been asked to abide by certain ground rules regarding identification of the speakers or the agency sponsoring the talk: (1) we don't identify the speakers by name in what we write; and (2) we don't identify the sponsoring agency in anything we write. No pictures and no sound recordings, either. You wouldn't think about this at first, but both can be used to identify people. So we don't use either.
Normally journalists are very reluctant to quote anonymous sources. But where there's good reason, it is not an uncommon practice. Given what is happening in Iraq, failure to abide by ground rules could literally get somebody killed. So we will be attending the talk "on background" and following Associated Press ground rules on the use of anonymous sources.
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