It's anonymous to us - not to them. It's not some 3rd hand story they bought off someone. If sources weren't kept anonymous - do you think the news would have sources anymore? Do you not understand how investigative journalism works?
I do think that some outlets have gotten a bit lazy with their source checking. This is not one of those cases.
Do you think it's responsible that our president is trying to make an ENEMY - a legitimate enemy - out of the press? Trump lovers sit there and whine about the unfair press and FAKE NEWS and then take random Facebook pages as the bible. Please.
Uh- this isn't investigative journalism. This is the NYT receiving an incendiary letter from someone and running it as an Op Ed. What is journalistic about that? This isn't news, this is the NYT aiding someone in the WH who apparently wants to destroy Trump from the inside and the NYT is assisting in that. That's ok with you?
The press runs garbage like this and you wonder why Trump despises them? Really?