New York Times Reporter Had a Plan to Get Steroid List Names
Editor & Publisher, July 31, 2009
By Joe Strupp
In June, New York Times reporter Michael S. Schmidt broke the story that slugger Sammy Sosa was on the list of baseball players to test positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. And he just added two more names to the list in a bombshell story. How did he do it? He had a plan, to speak with anyone who might have seen the 2003 list. "I had a duty to look into it," he said.
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