Where are all the "good reporters"

This is the same Deborah Howell who concluded last week that the Washington Post, of all papers, needed more conservative journalists to offset its runaway liberalism, thus setting up a political litmus test for employment that favors the right. As if it didn't exist already. Maybe she's having an attack of conscience, or just forgot what she wrote the week before.

Maybe it's just me, but I think this is hilarious what the Customer Service Representative at the Post wrote:

 

"Sometimes it's important just to hang out and build trust.

Post Metro reporter Josh White was trying to find a stripper with drug problems befriended by the rogue FBI agent Robert Hanssen before he was caught spying.

White visited most of the strip joints in town and got a lead that sent him to Columbus, Ohio, where he knocked, unannounced, and met her mother and toddler.

After three days, the stripper came home to find White on her couch with her son in his lap watching TV.

She gave him the story."

 

That's written in the context of "the traits of a good reporter".

"She gave him the story": what story? The story of the sexual habits of Robert Hanssen? Or the story of what it's like being a stripper with a drug problem? Maybe it was the stripper's mom's story the guy was after, or whatever story the stripper's toddler had to tell, as he sat in the reporter's lap for three days...

Anyway, I think I'll puzzle about that for the next minute or two: what story? I don't have to puzzle at all though, about what the Post's Customer Service Rep thinks are the "traits of a good reporter":

"find a stripper with drug problems"

"visit most of the strip joints in town"

"knock unannounced on the door of the home of the stripper's mom"

"meet the stripper's mother and the stripper's toddler"

"spend three days on her couch with her son in his lap watching TV"

"get the story"

 

She gave him the story.

What story?

I thought that little recollection was hilarious.