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Putting aside the specifics of this story for a moment: I really hope that we don't enter a new era of tech journalism where we get story after story written by anonymous government sources, because I am about to lose my mind over the constant barrage of reporting in this style on politics.

It's already creeping into business sections, just make it stop.

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Some of the sources are said to be government. That same government is forcing anonymous sources by coming down hard on leakers, both inside and outside. That may or may not be what's happening here but it's certainly possible.

Scared of something? You are projecting

Um yea, aren't you?

Yes I am scared of anonymous sources writing with an agenda that is bullshit as often as not. Not sure when this became the norm in journalism for people to just take everyone at their word just because they are senior and they have an axe to grind but it's quite tiresome.

If it's important stand up and put your name behind a story as a source, everyone just cowering in the corner because they want to keep their careers safe is making things worse, not better.

>Not sure when this became the norm in journalism for people to just take everyone at their word just because they are senior and they have an axe to grind but it's quite tiresome.

Anonymous sources have been around as long as journalism. It’s not like what those sources say is taken as a given, they are heavily corroborated against other sources of information, often documents/records/etc.

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