Journalism has a long-standing adage: “If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”
The point is clear: sources you talk to are motivated, facts can be wrong, spun, taken out of context, or outright lies. Since a journalist’s job is to present to the readers/viewers/listeners as accurate a picture of reality as they can, it is their job to cobble together as many sources as possible, since the news consumers cannot.
Otherwise, what is the point of having journalists? If we all have to do the work of verifying everything and cobbling together all the sources to get a reasonably accurate picture, the journalists are superfluous, or even worse–“misinformers.”
🚨NEW: Chuck Todd blames “sources” for reporters’ failure to cover Biden’s decline🚨
“The real culprits are the people who are supposed to be our sources on all these things, who were constantly…
