Sorry, I didn’t know that the entire world of journalism now revolved around one story involving an unnamed source thirty-some-odd years ago. I have no quarrel with your taste in journalism simply because it does not match my own. Good evening.
No, not just "thirty-some-odd years ago".
As I posted to you, " Do you really expect Obama's people to rat him out in public? Did you really expect "Deep Throat" to rat out Nixon in public? Do you really expect informants to rat out their Mafia bosses in public on the Internet using their real names?"
As Just A Nobody posted to you:
"As to the lack of named sources -- in the 4+ years I've been here most of the hit pieces on President Bush never named sources and these pieces were in the NYSlimes, WaComPost, Time, NewsweAk et al, along with many broadcast smears. It never seemed to be an issue then. (Perhaps for you, but not for many here.)"
Expecting individuals to commit Hari Kari to satisfy your desire for named sources is totally unrealistic.