Here’s a section of a front page entry from yesterday:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a f*cking moron, but check out national security adviser H.R. McMaster:
Here’s how the same story was reported by Patch.com:
National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster said in a private conversation that President Trump has the intelligence of a kindergartner, according to a BuzzFeed News report citing five anonymous sources familiar with the conversation.
Here’s the same as shown by Mediaite:
Weeks after that Rex Tillerson-“moron” controversy, McMaster is now the subject of a BuzzFeed report citing five sources saying he “trashed” President Trump:
And here it is in the Daily Caller:
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster belittled President Donald Trump at a private dinner, according to a Monday report from BuzzFeed.
McMaster reportedly made the comments during a July dinner
The difference? Only the story in the Daily Kos does not explicitly attribute the news source, Buzzfeed, providing instead an unlabeled link. As far as I can tell, only one front-pager here regularly put the news source directly in the text, rather than making the reader to follow the link to identify the source.
I would like DKos writers to adopt the citation standards used by other sites. That practice gives readers a better idea about who’s developing news rather than just echoing the work of others. It might also encourage some to give the original source some support in the form of views and subscriptions.