.@jstlk_ breaks down to Destiny the concept of journalists leaning on publishers’ reputations to protect their sources “Do we understand the purpose of a publisher in a case like this, that they have a reputation to review materials that are too sensitive and then they can say ‘we’re going to review the materials, we’re gonna put a note in the article that says we reviewed the materials and this is what they say’?..so if you are writing a journalistic story you should burn the person?..Condé Nast probably doesn’t have a good understanding of how to protect this source and still publish quotes, so they say ‘we’re gonna review it and then we’ll just say what is said there’..the reason that these institutions exist for so long is bc they have a long track record of evaluating information, directly characterizing it and publishing it, that’s the whole purpose of Condé Nast”