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Let this be a lesson to you all.

Last week, we told you about a letter sent by Raj Rajaratnam’s new PR guy, Jim McCarthy to Wall Street Journal editor Mike Siconolfi complaining about the paper’s use of anonymous sources in their coverage of Raj. The specific complaint was that the paper used the phrase “a person familiar with the situation” to refer to their source, instead of identifying any inherent biases the source might have.