>the people familiar with the inquiry said
>the sources said
>they said.
>one of the sources said
>this source said
These articles with no named sources are so tiring. This one didn't even bother to tell us why the sources are anonymous. Hard news and serious journalism is dead and buried. Did this reporter even have to leave their figurative basement to write this story?
If reporters name their sources on stories like this, then suddenly they don't have sources anymore, and the media becomes, well, pretty much a system to regurgitate press releases. Like, this is how it has always worked.
These articles with no named sources are so tiring. This one didn't even bother to tell us why the sources are anonymous. Hard news and serious journalism is dead and buried. Did this reporter even have to leave their figurative basement to write this story?