[RANT] Useless Journalistic Tactic of Partial Obscurity Protects No One

Look, journalists / bloggers / reporters / rumormongers, if you’re going to share some breaking news via an undisclosed source, don’t bother to obscure the source’s name while still giving tons of clues that makes it easy to figure out who that person is. Engadget, I’m talking specifically to you at the moment. In this breaking news story yesterday, you so kindly obscured the... read more