[amputect]

> The stories I've read have done a good and careful job of corroborating and verifying their stories.

There are several good recent examples of this: - the project veritas employee trying to shop a false abortion story to the post - the schumer accusation that was shown to be falsified - weinstein's fake accuser that was planted by his own team to discredit investigations

When people come with false information, it gets found and reported on, because journalists do their due dilligence. News organizations are really careful about this kind of thing, because screwing up here is a really good way to get your entire org badly burned.

[grandmczeb]

News organizations aren’t immune from getting it wrong though. The Duke lacrosse case and Brian Banks are two prominent examples.

[eigenstuff]

The Duke Lacrosse case wasn't uncovered by journalists, though.

[grandmczeb]

The reporters involved ignored massive inconsistencies in the accuser’s story and twisted facts to advance a narrative - the opposite of due diligence. Wether they uncovered the story or not isn’t relevant.