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epolanski | on: Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
You're being dismissive and aggressive while dodging the questions.

I routinely read the news, and I've been taught in school that critical reading involves doubting and focusing on facts, sources and proofs. No sources and verifiable proofs? No facts.

Which is why the journalist put emphasis on his sources behind the missile attack: he knows how much sources and proofs are important.

If you can fake screenshots, why not fake them, which is something that can be at least analyzed for tampering?

Even more: the author mentions X public replies, where are the links?

zbentley | parent
Narrowly (skipping the question of whether this journalist should have included copies of evidence), GP is right: most journalists with verified source material quote it/assert what it contains, rather than linking or copying it verbatim. That’s how serious journalism has always worked. The reputation of a newsroom is understood to back up a reporter’s assertion about their source.

Whether or not it should work that way is a separate question. But claiming that raw sources not being included is cause for suspicion is incorrect.

zbentley | root | parent
Addendum: A significant exception to that rule is when the journalist themselves is the source or an involved party in the story, e.g. when Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic was included in a Signal chat with US government officials discussing war plans: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-a...

In such cases, the journalist likely will publish raw data/screenshots, since they're functioning both as the source and the reporter.