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I am sorry but i am over the "people familiar" .. " condition of anonymity" crap in news Either put a name to it, or dont report on it

• snotrockets 4y ago
  Asking sources to publish their name is a very sure way to not have sources at all. Quote Orwell, Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. You need to get people to tell you about all those things, and as that someone who dislike them being printed has power (it ain't news otherwise,) you need to find a way to make people talk to you. "Help me to rekt your career and life" just don't cut it.
  • dev_daftly 4y ago
    That would make sense if journalists had a better track record when it came to their anonymous sources, but they don't.
  • phpisthebest 4y ago
    I understand that, and maybe the activists pretending to be journalists should have thought about that before burning the public's trust by just taking any sensationalized "source" with no vetting and reporting on it as fact. The "media" did this to themselves, now at this point no one would trust any news story that is only validated with "anonymous sources" as the media has proven they are either incapable of vetting these sources for truthful info, or do not actually have any sources at all and are just making shit up for the clicks Either way they have given the public no reason to trust them at this point
• dev_daftly 4y ago
  It's amazing how people still trust these "according to people familiar with x" articles after the past 5+ years. Like 99% of them have been wrong and just used to push a political agenda.