[Wolfstar]

all these reporters who called Rove to ask him about this - they already knew the answer to what they were probing him for.

This is actually a bread-and-butter technique for reporters. There is a reason news items are called stories. That's exactly what they are...tales. They are the reporter's take on information gathered in bits and pieces through seemingly innocent conversations in which the reporter holds back or misrepresents whatever information they already have in order to try to get someone to spill additional info.

Reporters will also eavesdrop, snoop, sneak, and steal in order to get bits of information.

They then go back to their desks and spin their interpretation of all the bits they collected into a tale that may or may not have any close resemblance to the actual facts of the matter.

[maica]

There is a reason news items are called stories.

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I see your sentence on a large banner Jon Carry-style as we finally have to have physical protest demonstrations in front of 'news' agency offices in the coming years..