Journalists should know that if they walk the fine line between legal and illegal then they run the risk of being investigated. If they're confident they're on

Journalists should know that if they walk the fine line between legal and illegal then they run the risk of being investigated. If they're confident they're on the right side of the law then they have little to worry about. What I take exception to is their attitude, as if it's some great affront to decency and democracy that they should come under any kind of scrutiny. I don't see many people hurling childish insults on HN, but here you are.