The Press: Look, No Names!

The New York Times last week printed a dispatch from The Hague, reporting that the Vatican was putting pressure on Dutch Catholics to prevent a settlement with Indonesia. The Times attributed the story to "a source close to the Foreign Ministry." Next day the meticulous Times corrected its error. It wasn't "a source close to the Foreign Ministry"; it was "a source beyond reproach."

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