> I would rather be able to see the probably dozens of pages ruling with the full details rather than hear it secondhand from a reporter at this point

And the reporter would rather you hear it second hand from them :)

I agree, online "journalists" are absolutely terrible at linking to sources. You'll have articles which literally just cover a video (a filmed press conference, a YouTube video, whatever) that's freely available online and then fail to link to said video.

I don't know what they're teaching at journalistic ethics courses these days. "Provide sources where possible" sounds like it should be like rule 1, yet it never happens.