Chew Your Own Food

When journalists get a happy meal at McDonald's do you think they ask the pimple-faced cashier to chew the hamburger for them? I don't think so either. Why then do you think journalists are so willing to simply regurgitate in a "news" story what was fed to them in a press release? Running with stories directly from Drudge, or the RNC (or the DNC for that matter) may help sell papers and generate profits for corporate masters. But it doesn't contribute to a well-informed populace.