Remember, there&#x27;s a special name for the type of reporting journalists do when they aren&#x27;t just copying &amp; pasting government and corporate press releases in their news stories: &quot;investigative journalism.&quot;<p>Anything else is just reporting publicly-available information from some official source.<p>Notice that that&#x27;s also the first line item to get slashed when budget-cuttin&#x27; time rolls around.