Look, Rojo’s an idiot, but you guys saying he should just be a journalist and use his connections and text Solinsky are kidding yourselves.
There are lots of ways to be a journalist, but at some point you have to choose between two basic options: you can be pals with the people you cover, or you can ask hard questions. And if you’re willing to ask hard questions, then you don’t get quick answers to easy questions either. That’s the catch-22: the people that would get a reply to this kind of question (which isn’t controversial but sounds vaguely like it might be sniffing around the edges of controversy) at 6:30am are the people who don’t ask it.
Whatever else you might say about Letsrun’s journalism (and there’s lots to say), they’ve shown themselves to be willing to ask questions that people don’t like.