Yesterday, an anonymous complainant met with the president of CNN to discuss Anderson Cooper's gay bathhouse dilemma.
The unnamed complainant expressed concern that such a high-profile reporter would own so many gay bathhouses responsible for the overwhelming number of new AIDS cases in New York City. The phantasmagoric witness estimated that the bathhouses owned by Cooper accounted for 76% of new AIDS cases in the last year. Though we haven't confirmed this next fact either, the complainant was reported to be a member of the Trump Administration. Apparently the source was trying to handle this incident in a professional way, directly with the president of CNN, by meeting with them rather than embarrassing that Network by going to other news outlets first.
Now, none of the above paragraphs are true..but they coooould be. If a news agency has unnamed, anonymous, (and even fake), sources who provide this information, should they publish it? Or, should they first seek the truth from others -- those who will actually go on the record and bear the scrutiny?