Jack Shafer on anonymous sources in newspapers. One thing these articles never touch on is whether the anonymous source is being misquoted. I've been a quoted source for news articles — not about important stuff but stuff — and I've been misquoted or misrepresented on occasion. So I think it's safe to say that an anonymous source is misquoted as often, if not more often…and what can they do? It's not like they can write an anonymous letter to the paper to amend or clarify the record.