Of course there will be articles written, when the source has to be protected. I fully support that and have had to do it myself. But, when we�re at the point of political wars between two parties; obviously one newspaper is either republican or democratic and this is sad in itself. They use this protective method to attempt to add more incursion, or significance, or substance to what they want to reveal; and not the actual story.
I mentioned it when I saw it in our local paper, AP inserts, I had to have found 5 or so stories using anonymous sources.