Good follow-ups not the franchise of national media

'Nothing helps a bad situation so much as some good competent X-raying': Russell

In newsroom jargon it's a "folo," the follow-up of a story that was once the talk of the town. A good folo uncovers news never detailed in a press release. If it delves deeply enough, it becomes muckraking.

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