> Separately, as journalists I expect them to be willing to spend some amount of effort (and it shouldn't take much) to report as widely as possible, even if a

> Separately, as journalists I expect them to be willing to spend some amount of effort (and it shouldn't take much) to report as widely as possible, even if a strict cost-benefit analysis suggests they shouldn't. > The fact that they aren't willing to do this brings their motivation, and thus their integrity, into question. Newspapers are businesses. If they don't make enough money they will have to close down, and then nobody gets to read their journalism anymore. So cost-benefit analyses cannot be avoided.