Charles has made an excellent observation. Isn’t this the state of most modern journalism: to wait, and wait, and wait for someone in authority to come inform them of matters they (the journalists) ought to have been ferreting out on their own? And isn’t the fear of their being excluded from the press conferences where such information is literally handed to them what keeps these flacks subservient? Why do I suspect that H.L. Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, and other real journalists would never have deigned to wait curbside to receive their work product?