There's no reason to trust news based solely on unnamed sources granted anonymity for no good reason

Journalists are asking readers to have faith in them while providing fewer and fewer grounds to do so

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(Editor’s note: I’m travelling this week, as I was last week and have a number of things on the go. But rather than not fulfill my duties to subscribers, here’s a piece that first appeared in The Hub. Thanks for your patience and support.)

If I spun you a tale about my life as a mercenary in the 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d’etat…