The collusion part worries me as well. It's not that bad in this case, because the story clearly has value. But journalists in general should avoid colluding

The collusion part worries me as well. It's not that bad in this case, because the story clearly has value. But journalists in general should avoid colluding with each other at all costs, because it just deepens the divide betwen the media and the public and opens things up to ideological hijacking of the press. Unfortunately, we've already seen this sort of thing happening.