It’s Journalism 101: Don’t convict someone in the press. Just because someone is accused of a crime doesn’t mean that person MUST be guilty. That lesson seems to be lost on a few media critics who are demanding that ABC reveal the identities of several confidential sources that linked the 2001 anthrax attacks to Iraq. [...]

This is a very thought-provoking article in Slate by Glenn Greenwald:
During the last week of October, 2001, ABC News, led by Brian Ross, continuously trumpeted the claim as their top news story that government tests conducted on the anthrax — tests conducted at Ft. Detrick — revealed that the anthrax sent to Daschele contained the [...]