Re: Digging for news . . .
It means actually going into the communities and speaking with people, not relying on the impersonal statistical data from reported information. Allowing your sources to remain anonymous is a great way to get them to talk. It also allows refutable information to become erroneous fact.
Perspectives. Everybody's got at least one, and some of them might even be right.
Why now? In the wake of the attack on the Great American Icon, it sells print.
Dan