No, it couldn't have been leaked just the same. If you think that, you should talk to some journalists. Top news reporters have vast networks of sources that h

No, it couldn't have been leaked just the same. If you think that, you should talk to some journalists. Top news reporters have vast networks of sources that help them dig up that sort of information. That particular story may have leaked one way or another, but without well-connected journalists, many of the leaked stories we read would never be told, or would be lost among the thousands of rumors and innuendos published on blogs daily. There are very few web-only sources that get quality leaks. It's fairly common for a website to break a story that the big dogs passed on, then to have it take off, but to actually get the information before the MSM is fairly rare.