[flangola7]

> How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article?

Presumably the normal amount of time? Do you think journalists just go publishing things haphazardly? I get the feeling you have no experience in the world of reporting.

[RichEO]

Having been on both side of press like this “immediately” means a couple of hours at most. Sometimes it means “I spoke to someone, they said they’d come back to me, but I didn’t want to wait”.

I’ve seen cases where emails are sent outside of work hours on a Friday/Weekend so the journalist can claim that the subject “did not respond to repeated requests for comment” on Monday morning.

Journalists often have a story they want to tell. They intentionally arrange things to support their story.

[newfriend]

And I suspect you've spent too much time in the world of reporting if you think that journalists are some paragons of truth and honesty.

[viraptor]

It really depends where you are. On one hand side, Matt Levine is a journalist. On the other, so are people in the Daily Mail. Yet, there's a massive difference there.