We should ban speculation from the forum? [View all]
...that's what the more strident critics seem to be arguing about uncorroborated reports from Mensch, Taylor and others.
What these folks seem to want is news wrapped up in a neat bow, courtesy of establishment news sources who regularly engage in pack journalism to the exclusion of all but their often-compromised consensus opinion.
That's not the way reporting works. Information can go through many barriers, many meant to deliberately obscure the truth. It can take a great deal of courage to put your name behind an uncorroborated report, and that's often how important stories begin. Some pan out, some don't.
The function of a discussion forum, however, isn't to merely serve as a bulletin board for forgone conclusions. It's an opportunity to flesh out what we know, believe, and can stand up as reasonable truth.
Rejecting speculative sources, out of hand, seems to be a foolish and wasteful pursuit, unless your goal is to just promote MSM-sponsored groupthink, or perhaps, you just can't stand the drama of the reporting process.
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