Buffalo News - Anonymous sources fueling push for war

The AP, as a result of insufficient resources, pressure or carelessness, has slumped toward this role [of government organ] because of broad overuse of anonymous sources for key stories on intelligence concerning al-Qaida, stories that have captured the front pages of the world's newspapers and topped the budgets on radio, TV and cable news.

Almost every reporter here uses anonymous sources. But it is a rare reporter or editor who will repeatedly use this device to convey information that might help start a war.

Newspaper columnist calls AP a "government organ" fueling "war-fever" through repeated reliance on single anonymous government sources.