Vindication used to be hard to come by in this business. It took me years to even buy a copy of The Washington Times and then it took me another year to actually read it because no one, outside of Bob Barr , thought it was remotely readable. But it only took this website two months before media outlets such as The Wall St. Journal and CNBC recognized it as a legitimate source for news. Perhaps my friend hit on something this weekend. If you have information, they put you in the newspaper.
Journalists are a funny breed.
There's a segment that concentrates a lot of energy on doing their job properly, which is usually to report news or dig it up. There's also a segment that want to be rock stars. We all want to break news and get our names published or mentioned somewhere other than a by-line. But as some of my friend's who cover this sector will attest, there are a lot of sneaky writers out there. Others are known to simply lift stories from obscure websites without attributing them, something I had to take people to task for before this site gained some recognition.