> all newspapers should cite sources.

You'd lose a lot of valid sourcing if you made this a requirement. For example, the Catholic Church scandal investigation would never have seen the light of day if the key legal sources corroborating the story had to give up their identity as part of the process. Speaking off the record is often where a lot of those kinds of stories come together.

And the reaction around the world to that story, the thousands of victims that came forward, resoundingly confirmed what people were saying on background.