I've never seen it happen so fast, although most deplorables are still in the dark about what's coming.

Rachel's heart is in the right place but she is not a rocket scientist, imo, and she has limited journalistic experience. Know your sources, their past honesty, their motivations to lie. Have multiple sources. Give the targets of bad news a chance to disagree before publication. Ask experts if the story sounds fishy. Don't cut corners in a rush to get a scoop.

Try to be like the Washington Post even though it costs money.

Your criticism of Rachel Maddow seems odd considering that she and her team were not fooled by the forged document they received. She received the document anonymously so your suggestion that she should know her sources and have multiple confirmations doesn't make sense. The document she received did not name a target, in fact, Ms. Maddow and MSNBC were the targets of a serious mis-information campaign. Her producers did speak with experts, and importantly, she handled the document as though it were legitimate protecting people from being exposed to it, (it's a crime to be aware of classified material if one is not authorized). Lastly, her team spent several days analyzing and researching the document to determine its veracity before they broadcast their report; they didn't cut corners or rush to publish.

Please explain your observations. Thanks in advance.

My main point was that we need not be too concerned about false stories being published if standard journalistic standards are followed - require 2 sources if they are anonymous et. My point about Rachel, bless her heart, being a bit slow is merely an aside. For instance her story about the Intercept getting the same story from an anonymous source that she got is stupid. She got documents with the same story two days after the Intercept publication. Why is that newsworthy? Anyone could read the Intercept story, make up a document, and send it to Rachel. Almost certainly that is what happened since a date on Rachel's document had the Intercept story time stamp to the second. If she had asked the Intercept about this she could have avoided being embarrassed.