Media

Well for anything of substance anyway, the journalist was supposed to get some kind of independent confirmation. Information travels too quickly for that these days I guess, because for any lie a Republican says, you can easily find thousands of people online repeating it.

But anyway, if the journalist ran with it and it turned out to be a lie, it damaged their reputation as a reporter. A journalist would feel burned by that source and probably not use them again if at all possible.

Nowadays, media personalities are judged more on their ability to get "access" to people like Donnie, which in turn means they are judged on their willingness to corrupt any journalistic integrity down to a level that pleases Donnie.

Imagine the weather report with two meteorologists, one of which lies. It's raining! No it isn't! We report, you decide!