Why is it that EVERY ONE of these bogus news articles have multiple contributors? Plausible deniability?
Overall quality of “journalists” has gone downhill. That’s one factor. It’s why you can see multiple names on the simplest of stories that require no research.
Another is that if a “journalist” provides info from an “anonymous source” that is used in an article authored by another, even if it’s just one little part of a massive piece, it’s standard to identify that “journalist”. This is designed to reassure the public that everything is on the up and up, but it really does nothing of the sort. “Anonymous sources” can be janitors, after all, and that’s assuming they aren’t being totally made up, which has happened several times.