 Competition means something very strange within the world of beat journalism. Reporters think of themselves as intensely competitive creatures, like nobody in the world is more competitive than they are. But what they mean by competition is everybody who competes for the same story but wants to get it five minutes sooner, right? Competition doesn't mean a totally different definition of the story or a completely different sense of who's believable or where the truth lies. They don't compete on those grounds. They compete on grounds of everybody kind of agrees with the story is and then I try to get it five minutes before you. So what's different about these reporters is that they were competing on premises and credibility on who's credible on the entire thrust of the narrative.