What’s funny is I have some journalist friends and they used to tell stories of colleagues who would literally call someone and tell them “please say ‘X’” and t

What’s funny is I have some journalist friends and they used to tell stories of colleagues who would literally call someone and tell them “please say ‘X’” and then would run a story of “a person on the street says ‘X’.” And would get emails like “anyone willing to give a background flavor quote on…” Whenever I see a news story and the random example is some rich New York person I assume they are friends with the producer or whatnot. So I think journalists have always done this, just now it’s so much easier.