News Story of the Century isn't inside their smoke-filled rooms, its "outside", in OUR smoke-filled world ...

If money-losing newspapers were serious about cutting costs and adjusting to new realities, they ditch all of their national legislative bureaus and engage much more seriously in citizen journalism.

Because this is a new century, not the 20th century, one where the non-actions of  most political parties in national legislatures are of less and less interest to the public, as party membership numbers and voter turnout proves.