Mr. Oppegaard:
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In light of the following what exactly is an "...independent and reliable source..."?  Perhaps editors should rate content in the same fashion as television shows, denoting suitability.  
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New York Times public editor Liz Spayd said Friday night that she believed certain tweets authored by Times journalists during the campaign were “over the line” and should have been me with “some kind of a consequence.” Those tweets came from investigative reporter Eric Lipton, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Peter Baker, and reporter Liam Stack who tweeted a headline of a story from The Atlantic.
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“Yes, I think that's outrageous,” Spayd agreed. “I think that that should not be. They shouldn't be tweeted and they shouldn't -- and it does concern me that that would be. I don't know that any of those people should be fired, but I do think that when people go over the line like that, and I think some of those are over the line, that there ought to be some kind of a consequence for that.”