In-depth reporting has come to mean merely digging around in the dirt for shiny coins, ignoring the surroundings, whether slime or columns of integrity. BeldarBlog, with the help of his readers, is compiling an honor roll of journalists who have been
"swimming against the mainstream" in reporting this year's election news. I nominate Bob Woodward. Though he didn't get answers, he asked questions. Far too many of his colleagues did not.