WOW. The Newspaper behaved ethically!
“Why we didn’t publish the names
We have decided not to publish those named in the Anderson firm’s report. Why?
While the firm shared names and assignment histories, no details about credible accusations are included.
Anderson has asked you to believe that these 300 clerics are bad actors at face value. We believe details about accusations are required for New Jersey’s Catholics to make that judgment.
Anderson said its report drew on information “from publicly available sources, claims made by survivors to the dioceses and religious orders responsible for the offenders, and legal settlements made as a result of claims for sexual abuse.”
We question why the firm didn’t do more to attribute its information to those publicly available sources.
Further, despite taking pains to stress that “all individuals [named in the report] should be considered innocent until proven guilty,” Anderson still presents the names, though many of the cases that support its report have not been settled or, as the firm wrote, “fully evaluated in a civil or criminal court.”
They may not have published the names, but they provided a link to a PDF file of the report that supposedly contains the names.