Classic forms of he said, she said are not so much a "sin" against high practice as an increasingly crappy level of service for what is supposed to be a high end product: New York Times reporting.
The Washington Post and the Guardian won the big prize: the Pulitzer for public service. There's no prize for the network of journalists and newsrooms that brought the surveillance story forward.
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