JBL has stated numerous times going all the way back to his Justin Hawk Bradshaw days that the boys would purposefully feed Dave bullshit because they thought it was funny to make him look bad. That is going back to at least 1995.
I do not have any real recollection of him ever breaking any real stories until he got in with The Elite, so of course he is going to be loyal to them to a degree.
Prior to 1995 before there was internet boards, I guess maybe Dave got away with taking educated guesses and an actual mailed out newsletter have him more time before he was proved wrong. He could sell the "Plans Changed" bullshit a bit better, but I can't imagine he has ever been anything but a weird mark conning people out of money under the guise that he is a legitimate reporter.
Spoiler, he is not.
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