I keep hearing these kind of arguments about in-depth reporting being costly. Vice went bankrupt when it stopped producing those stories. Per https://en.wikip

I keep hearing these kind of arguments about in-depth reporting being costly. Vice went bankrupt when it stopped producing those stories. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media in 2016, Vice was making $1B ($10^9) with 3000 employees. ~$330,000 / employee. Can probably afford some plane flights and investigative telephone calls. Per standard work year, every employee's 'supposedly' working 2080 hrs a year. ~6M work hours. You can write a lot of interesting stories, and follow a lot of leads other people are not looking at with 6M hours / year. If you follow the "copy sensational click" route, you end up with a lot of local media, where it looks like somebody just copied the local police arrest report. You don't stand out by just copying / dopplegangering whatever looks shiny.