You can't always fix it
5 points by carlana
5 points by carlana
I'm not going to disclose the specific company, because the main thing it would do is risk me getting in legal trouble, for dubious benefit.
I'd ask "why not publish this anonymously", but I assume the answer is that since they already got in touch about this (presumably under their real identity), this would be traced back to them. It sucks that trying to do this the right way locks you out of this. (interestingly enough, we've just had another story like this)
I'd assume similar reasoning holds for contacting journalists. Do media outlets give their sources any sort of legal protection? I assume not, but maybe I'm wrong.
Do media outlets give their sources any sort of legal protection? I assume not, but maybe I'm wrong.
Protecting your sources certainly used to be a thing, but the journalist would also do research and not publish based on a single source unless it was really impossible to cross-reference it. Sadly in the UK at least journalism ain’t what it was, and it’s just slop out as much low effort stuff as possible for the most part. There’s efforts like 404 media and others trying to keep the old school approach alive and profitable I think.