[Nothingburger]

I was in the newspaper business for 25 years as reporter and editor, and I can tell you that I never used shoddy attributions like “experts say.”

And I strongly discouraged any young reporters I coached from doing the same.

[catnipman]

” shoddy attributions like “experts say.” “

but such an EASY way to avoid actual research and actual explanations by naturally lazy “reporters” ...