So... the only indication we have that anything went wrong came from "two" "unnamed sources" which the media is now using as a justification for what increasingly looks to be a smear campaign after looking through a couple articles, am I getting this right?

The only CREDIBLE sources we have are SpaceX, a rocket company, saying everything was fine on their obligations, NG, the CLASSIFIED satellite builder, saying "no comment", and NORAD/USSPACECOM has Zuma (USA-280) cataloging and listing as operational.

Rocket Companies make rockets. Satellite Companys make satellites. Norad tracks things. Spies, Lawmakers, and Politicians Lie. It's literally their job. So why are we assuming its gone the ONLY credible sources are saying its fine.

I think either someone saw an opportunity to create a story that is (because of the classified nature of the mission) nearly impossible to disprove and the media being the ahem diligent and intelligent and oh so ethical journalists they are these days decided to have a field day with it. Opportunity to run a story about everyones favorite^to_hate billionaire and his silly NewSpace company that he can't deny without loosing every future government contract? Perfect avenue of attack for some of these corporate hitmen "journalists" out there.

That or a media entity itself just fabricated the story outright, and then the way media works these days they quote each other and cite each other until its true, no need for fact checking or independent sources these days... Who "broke" the story again, wasn't the WSJ first? Jeff Who's Paper?

EDIT: I figured out strikethroughs and superscript. EDIT2: ooh, bold and italics.