"Reportedly"

This is not the greatest of the headline sins of the New York Times, but when in journalism school is it taught that you should use your precious headline space to make the story less clear and suggest that what your reporter is reporting, or at least relaying, is actually unconfirmed?

Headline:

Story:

A period that began when Mr. Trump pushed baseless claims from the debate stage that immigrants in Ohio were stealing and eating household pets ended with him facing attacks over his support of the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, who referred to himself as a “black Nazi” on the message board of a pornographic website.

Reportedly reported in The New York Fucking Times!