Scoop

In that single, unattractive syllable is encapsulated all the romance and glamour remaining in the tattered, down-at-heels trade known as journalism. Most journalism is glorified stenography. You spend your time transcribing other people's words, chronicling other people's deeds, more or less as dictated by these other people or, more often, by their "spokespersons" -- and then suddenly, through ingenuity or blind luck or a little of both, along comes a SCOOP, the journalistic equivalent of redemption.　←Gusto ko ito, haha