It's an excellent exercise in critical thinking skills where you're weighing the support for two mutually exclusive conclusions. On a more social level, we all benefit from this sort of push-and-pull with investigative journalism because ideally, it pressures journalists to ensure their work is well-supported before press. In all likelihood, Goodman and Newsweek will always have the scars from this debacle in the end. Even if Newsweek's story was proved accurate in the end, the fact that their return to print was shrouded in this sort of controversy is beyond embarrassing.