Newsrooms have reported relentlessly since January 2017 that President Trump may have colluded with the Russians and somehow betrayed his country in order to win the 2016 presidential campaign. After hundreds of shocking headlines and potentially damming reports, we still have no idea if any of the allegations against the president and his inner circle are true, or the product of overactive left-wing imaginations.

Yet, reporters are being given rewards nonetheless for their Russia and Russia-related coverage, as if the job were as good as finished.