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Crypto aside (I think it's useless nonsense in this case, but that's me), my gripe with journalism isn't the facts... it's the stenography. Some serial liar (coughcoughTrumpcough) says the sky is falling because the Sun rises in the West and the idea that it rises in the East is liberal fake news, and the media dutifully reports the quote and doesn't call them on their shit. And then the debate over whether the Sun rises in the east or the west is treated as he-said-she-said opinion by the media.

That is a real problem. Not anonymous sources or fact-checking.