You miss the point and/or fail to respond to well made points as nicely as anyone to ever appear on this board.
Yes, it matters that you don't use your real name, that you hide behind an alias.
You called someone's credibility into question; it's fair, therefore, to address yours.
This is so stupid. So it matters if Joe Student says something, or Joe The Janitor? No, it doesn't, unless you are that person who would just judge based on what the person does. I'm a consumer of media, and that's all the credibility I need in this situation.
You've listed on your profile in the past that you are a CPA. Therefore, what credibility do you have when it comes to having an opinion on sports or journalism? Do you see how stupid that logic is? The only topic you can talk on from now on is CPA-related material. No more credibility on any other professional subject matter for you.
There are thousands of voices out there, and I couldn't identify Tim or Jacob out of a lineup of five people. I go off their personality and body of work. Tim is not in the breaking news business, he's on the lighter side of things, trying to capture the moment on social networks. Sorry that I would not trust him as a go-to source of information when he has an eye on a ton of things at once.
Jacob is in training to be a journalist to break news and cover news (at least to my understanding). It does not matter at all what my background or level of expertise on journalism is to trust or not trust every single thing the two say. It's a right of mine as a consumer of media. The OP obviously had similar trusting issues with the two as well, and in that original thread with Jacob's news, there were others who didn't buy into the source.