Race in politics made headlines this week when freelance journalist Andrew Breitbart posted two videos of Shirley Sherrod, a United States Department of Agriculture official. The videos indicated Sherrod made racist comments when working at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sherrod was forced to resign immediately because of the videos, which initially seemed indisputable. However, when the NAACP released the full video the next day, it quickly became apparent that her statements were taken out of context. Breitbart has been accused of being “deliberately deceptive,” and many media outlets have labeled it a smear campaign.

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Breitbart claims to have gotten the videos from an unnamed source. Do you think it is ethical to use content from anonymous sources? Check out our recent IJNet discussion on the topic.