Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
And it’s just by saying ‘yes’ to the stories everyone else ignores. This journalist is the only one that agreed to follow up to the guy. IIRC this same thing happened to a bunch of other stories. The mainstream media just buries so much stuff. Sometimes you have to wonder what else is just stuck in a Nytimes journalist’s inbox that is just languishing.