So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of air quality around the nation's schools singled out those in the smugly green village of Berkeley, Calif.
And if they sometimes seem consumed with rage at anyone who challenges their actions, well, that's how hacks always respond when called on their hackery.
While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.
Further research has shown that caterpillars become virtually immune to the wilt virus as the trees on which they feed respond to increasing defoliation.
He concentrates on reflecting the sweet and grief of small potatos. And he works hard to construct a kind of poetic sentiment and atmosphere, which is filled with sadness and full of tender affection.
Then, in 1906, Upton Sinclair published his socialist novel, the JUNGLE, aimed, as he later said, at people's hearts but hitting their stomachs instead.