In a free market, yes, reporters love scoops. In a monopoly, where all the TV news networks and all the newspapers and all the magazines are owned by the same six corporations, no, then reporters do not pursue scoops because if the scoop is off-limits, then pursuing it will get them blacklisted.
In a free market, yes, reporters love scoops. In a monopoly, where all the TV news networks and all the newspapers and all the magazines are owned by the same six corporations, no, then reporters do not pursue scoops because if the scoop is off-limits, then pursuing it will get them blacklisted.
Reporters may love scoops, but they love their jobs more. They certainly know what scoops would get them fired.
They love their jobs, and they love being alive, more than scoops.
Obamagate was the biggest political scandal in a very long time (only recently topped by the 2020 election fraud) and they didn't go near that story.
Trying to convince us that they'd go after election fraud that was perpetrated by Democrats is laughable.