Sadly, in today's era of "get stories out as quickly as possible" style journalism (and quickly declining traffic + wages for the industry as a whole), actual f

Sadly, in today's era of "get stories out as quickly as possible" style journalism (and quickly declining traffic + wages for the industry as a whole), actual fact checking is far less common than it needs to be. If a story looks remotely credible, then a lot of publications will think that's 'good enough' as a source, no matter how obvious the problems would be with a bit of further investigation.