Because the rest of the cretins they work with are truly and forever SCUM, in the most vile sense of the word.
“I feel bad for the three or four old timers left in the news business who might still be trying to do diligent work with integrity.”
The old-timers are scumbags, too. It’s just that before the Internet there was no way to catch them.
Sean Hannity has been saying recently that 2008 is the year that journalism died. I’m afraid he’s right.