The way reporters report...

[question everything]

I used to attend city hall and county board meetings that would last late into the evening and then would see reporters rush to report the result of the vote with comments on what was said.

I once asked one of them how they could get everything so quickly in time for the deadline. She replied that most of it would be written ahead of time, like background, with just filling the final vote.

So I think that yesterday that USA Today reporter - highlighted earlier on CNN - probably already had a sentence that "the governor's office confirmed" and it was just a matter of whether the confirmation was for a tragedy or for a "miracle."

The tragedy here is that so many always compete to see who would be the first to report "breaking news."

Even on these pages - and like most, I went to bed after reading the "good" news here - the posts were "CNN said" "Fox reported" 'MSNBC reports" with many demanding to get a link and many confirming each other..