could support a family on and there was a living wage that they pay me to go to the baltimore police department s and kiss enough desk sergeant s asses every day to find out what was going on and then to kill somebody else s assets to find out where i was being lied to and then to compare one line to the other and to take them out for drinks afterwards to find out what else i wasn t in that a store that might make a follow-up story. it was 14 or 15 hours a day nobody does that as a hobby and the vanity of the internet have a sort of approach the very edge of what journalism is, the vanity of a thus far of this very imager medium is to say we re already doing journalism. look, i went to a council meeting. i reported on this. you went to the public like kabuki face of politics which is the council meeting. but later on if you actually knew anybody in the bowels of the the city administration you might have actually reported on what is really going on, but for that to you have