I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that there's

nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and we

run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition.

On this Friday, anonymous sourcing should be used very rarely by honest journalists. That means that

you report something said to you but the person saying it doesn't want their name used.

Now, I rarely use anonymous sources because I don't trust them. A person can tell you anything, but if they're not

willing to back it up, what does it really mean? People have agendas. They want to gossip. They want to hurt other people they don't like.

So reporters must be skeptical. Now if an anonymous source shows you a document or proves to you what he or she is saying is true, then you can use that source.

But you have to explain to the reader or the listener or the viewer

Exactly why you're using the source

Enter the Wall Street Journal which last week harpooned Joe Biden saying that he's

faltering and using anonymous sources to provide specifics.

I read the article, but I didn't quote from it because I don't know who these people are.

Obviously they don't know who these people are.

Obviously they don't like Joe Biden.

So why would I play into that?

I know President Biden is cognitively declining.

I can see it.

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