“ABC’s Foley Scoop Shows Web Tips Change Media Game”

By Brian 

“Anonymous tips sent over the Web helped ABC break the story of disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley’s graphic messages to teenage aides, proving a new model for news gathering as TV outlets embrace the Internet,” Reuters reports.

In the past, the sources who came forward “could well have been turned away at a news organization’s switchboard,” Brian Ross notes in the story…

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