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The people I have in mind say something along the lines of "But the newspaper reports are the only information we have, therefore we have no choice but to believe them".
Mmm, yeah, but even when word-of-mouth is the only information we have, we “have no choice but to believe them” in that sense (assuming they mean something sensible by that phrase in that context).