Any journalist worth his name would only ever look to an anonymous forum for a pointer, at the very best. Never a direct quote and most certainly never for reliable information that doesn't need bang-to-rights verification.
Just look at the garbage and nonsense on the UPS crash which was being written by PPRuNe posters - while at the same time they had the gall to criticise journos for not checking their facts.
There are already websites claiming to offer professional aviation news but which are prepared to paste unsourced and unverified information - from places like PPRuNe - in a bid to be first, and those same websites then get quoted here. What a shambles.