Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, explaining recently why he had given all of the Jan. 6th footage to Tucker Carlson, and not to the world in general, asked the circle of reports around him, "haven't you ever had an exclusive?" Now, he is saying, Carlson gets an exclusive. That's how the cookie crumbles. Personally, yes. As a member of the fourth estate, I have had exclusives. They work this way. A source tells me, "right now this information is yours alone to do with as you can -- but as of noon tomorrow, it goes up on businesswire. " In my corner of the journalistic world, putting a release on businesswire (or prnewswire) is, in effect, telling the world. Real scoops, in other words, are designed to be self-terminating. Either McCarthy or Carlson could give the world all of this footage -- not through businesswire, but by putting a link to it up on their respective websites. That hasn't happened yet. The world is reliant on Carlson's monopol...