> But when you are asking a journalist to report on an event minutes to hours after it happened I don't ask this. Some push that stuff hard, because it gets ra

> But when you are asking a journalist to report on an event minutes to hours after it happened I don't ask this. Some push that stuff hard, because it gets ratings, or whatever the equivalent is now that we're a few decades post-broadcast-tv. Of course, it doesn't get ratings so much as it draws from a bank of integrity that journalism squirreled away through great effort and frustration for over a century, and once they've spent all that, there will be nothing left. Hell, the account's probably been overdrawn for awhile now. And it's as if no one even noticed.