This would be a fine explanation if anon-sourced journalism did not have such a long track record of getting things exaggerated or just flat wrong. It requires the reader to pawn their own judgment to the journalist. No journalist worth a damn would do the same for anyone else.https://twitter.com/oliviakrauth/status/1302217087037906947 …
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If Donald Trump says "an anonymous person told me this," would you believe him? Only if you trust him personally. So, why would we apply a different standard to Jeffrey Goldberg, or any other journalist?
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So then you would not have accepted Watergate reporting at the time?
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In this case, it would have been very cool to not elect a guy who built his entire political career on the back of the claim that... some guy told him that Obama's birth certificate was a fake.
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