Because news organizations are still operating under a newsprint paradigm where citations are considered a waste of ink. Like I'm not saying they actually stil

Because news organizations are still operating under a newsprint paradigm where citations are considered a waste of ink. Like I'm not saying they actually still think about column inches, but that's how this became standard and people are still just following the standard. This is actually a good litmus test to see if a news organization has moved to the online-first mindset or not.