Yes! "An independent journalist" ==> How can I be sure this person exists, much less that they do good work, or that this work in particular is good?
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Right? Sources are everything. Am I able to, even hypothetically, check this myself? Entire basis of scholarly citation that abso-fucking-lutely applies to news, just without the detail. No need for a bibliography with news, but cite some sources I can follow up on, ffs.
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Yes, exactly! Anything else is just, "source: trust me, bro."
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