Anonymous source is BS. It gives just as much ‘cover’ to the so-called journalist as it does to the informant.
1) The journalist can seek multiple sources, promise them all anonymity, and then just write the article according to the source that best conforms to what they want to write.
2) The source could be entirely made up
3) The source could lie completely knowing he/she will be anonymous
4) plenty of other fakeries.
Anonymous sourcing of quotes is not journalism it is fiction.
Exactly correct...and well put.