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by jay_kyburz 1343 days ago
I'm not an expert on the matter, its a little before my time, but I think a journalist went on the record and reported than an anonymous source told him of X, Y, and Z.

I don't know about the US, but I believe in some jurisdictions the newspaper and the journalist risk lawsuits if the information they report is a lie.