Muckrakers

Back in Oct of 2020 50 former senior intelligence officials signed a letter saying that the emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were Russian disinformation. The letter was published in the press without asking if these 50 had any evidence. Sometimes blanket statements are challenged and other times they are just accepted. No one in the press is asking any of these 50 what they based their assessments on or where they got their information. No one is asking all the members of the main stream press who called this Russian disinformation where they got their information. It seems the press can just offer opinions as facts and no one challenges them. The main defense against tyranny in a democracy is the free press and they have let the country down by not asking the tough questions and doing the hard work of investigative reporting. Where are the muckrakers when we need them?