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In those days, the desk could still authenticate who submitted a 'story' and be certain that it came from a human being.

It could be tracked.

The desk could find out if the 'facts' were real or misconstrued or fabricated.

In short, you could still do fact-based news.

In the end, though, it was found to be too much trouble to be worth it when you had actual real journalists, some of the best, to be in your employ.

And so, it was nixed (to the best of my recollection). (2/n)