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President-elect Donald Trump is clearly antagonistic toward the mainstream media. That attitude is unlikely to change after Inauguration Day. His disdain for journalists and reluctance to release details about his finances and business ventures may force journalists to rely increasingly on anonymous sources, a strategy that reputable news organizations have long frowned upon.
So in the age of Trump, how should a reader approach coverage that relies primarily on anonymous sources?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 10 2017, @01:05AM
> but Correct the Record openly did. See this FEC complaint for details.
That's pretty empty. Did you read the complaint?
Because I just did. And the complaint is that they used public blogs to coordinate and that despite current FEC rules permitting exactly that, its somehow not permitted because they don't primarily use internet publications for all of their work. And to support the claim that they would have to primarily use the internet for all their activity the complainant provides ... nothing. They couldn't even be bothered to cite whatever ruling they think the FEC made that support's their interpretation? You know why, right? Because there isn't one.
Not only that, they don't even bother to provide one single example of the blog-based coordination. All they do cite are a bunch of examples of CTR doing pro-hillary work. Duh!
Ya got one more shot, lets see something with real heft, ok? Not an amauter FEC nuisance complaint.