When someone says this to current journalists I want to snark back. "1976 called, they want their tagline back."
The print media only "follow the money" for stories about once a year, usually for Pulitzer submissions. But now, post Citizens United, they won't be doing that on a political story.
But there is some good news. Someone is using the Ashley Madison data to track down dark money in politics.
But luckily for the news scanning public, the Conservative Christian Group getting the money was led by Josh Duggar! As I predicted, he used the Christian "I'm a sinner, forgive me." card.
The MSM was able to use the hypocrisy card to run the story. He was a public figure who was also a moralizing hypocrite, so they didn't have to worry about discussing someone's private sex lives. He was all wrapped up in one easy to consume baby-faced moralizing package.
But that is as far at they will take it. They aren't going to use it to look into the sex and political money connections like the CMD did.
Let me repeat. The media
do NOT WANT to stop political money flowing into their coffers. They will only talk about it in the abstract as if there is nothing they can do with it beyond sexy headlines and moralized shaming.
If we can't stop the data from getting out and want to use this data for good, we have to help the people doing the kind of work that the media will not do.
Nobody is going to do this but us.