Completely agree with all of this. My point is that sources allow follow-up. Even if, in the extreme case, the sources are garbage, that's still useful informa

Completely agree with all of this. My point is that sources allow follow-up. Even if, in the extreme case, the sources are garbage, that's still useful information. Bias is to be expected from journalists but disinformation is not, and disinformation thrives when it's divorced from sources/context. Smarter Every Day did an episode in which a journalist explained how to look for sources when something (in her example, a climate change meme) seems potentially dubious, which highlights an example where the source is actually great and the bias is one we'd normally find positive, but the way the information is recontextualized is misleading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUiYglgGbos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUiYglgGbos