Journalist die every year covering the news - and they wouldn't be giving up their lives for a “used car lot” manager ( not trying to insult used car dealers by inferring they're like the publisher of the Washington Post...)
I will concede some of the rank-and-file newsies might have been in the dark here. But the “name” journalists, the high-profile editors were in the big middle of this thing. What do you think all that face time on TV is about?
Recall a couple of weeks ago the NYT clown Tom Friedman got caught taking speaking fees - $50K, iirc. At first, he acted like he did nothing wrong. That tells us he’s been doing it for years.
And what type do the rank-and-filers all look up to? The Woodward/Bernstein types. That’s who they all want to be when they grow up.