Originally Posted by
Smilin_Ed
If a reporter submitted a story that says the flight recorders revealed certain information and it turns out that that is false, the reporter should be fired.
Which is why they don't write that. They write things like "sources... say... the flight recorders revealed". As long as
a source did say that, you can get away with a lot, allegedly.
And sources can of course be "somone on the internet" these days...