People get excited about things like this and say things like "this is REAL investigative journalism". Or "I wish mainstream journalists would start doing this".

Look, I read documents like this all day long. So do investigative journalists. It's just that very few people care about the stuff we find until it turns into an international spy thriller.

Just because you don't care about it on the state/local level doesn't mean we don't put in the work.

Edit: You can look at some of the great investigative journalism you're probably not paying attention to here: http://www.ire.org/blog/extra-extra/