Viewpoints: The media did right by Ed Oliver, but not for the reasons you may think

‘Unless Farmer had a source he did not cite, he appears to have pieced together the same information The News had. The difference is, he came to a reasonable – but unverified – conclusion and published it. If that is the case, the article should not have seen the light of day. An editor would have sent it back to him and said, “You don’t have it. Get someone, named and on the record, who can confirm.” That vital missing verification is why there was what he called “a media blackout.”’