Putting on my more than 30 years as a professional journalist hat here, RS totally screwed up with this.

There is NO FECKING WAY I would have ever allowed an article to be anywhere near as completely unvetted as that one was.

Please note that I am NOT saying that “Jackie” lied or was making stuff up, but right off the bat with her setting the conditions of no names for something purporting to be “investigative reporting” put every potential liability on RS.

Most of my work in the last 20 years has been as a copy editor, which means I want to know EVERY source for a story. Even if we’re not publishing that information, I want to make sure that I, as an editor, and my organization, that has a reputation for accuracy, are on exceedingly solid ground before a single word sees the light of day.

We may have anonymous sources in a published story, but I damned sure know who that anonymous source is and have verified ALL of the information we are printing as fact.

Guess I’m just too old school…