This looks like raw material for quotes that would be sprinkled throughout a normal piece of journalism. Why was this person talking to BI (instead of, say, th

This looks like raw material for quotes that would be sprinkled throughout a normal piece of journalism. Why was this person talking to BI (instead of, say, the NYT or a major metro area news org)? And why did BI publish this sometimes unclear monologue, rather than do more journalism? (Did BI not want to allocate resources to do a proper piece? Did the source talk to multiple news outlets, and BI wanted to be the first to publish anything at all from it? Did the source insist that BI do this as a condition, and BI didn't tell them to take a hike?)