Ted Cruz — hated by everyone in America except enough Texans to keep being re-elected — came up with a solution to the awful, cold and powerless conditions in the state he represents. He flew to Cancun to get away from it. There was outrage and he came skying back with one of those excuses that no one believes — his daughters needed his help with something — but which those who support the guy could pretend to buy into.
But this post isn't about that. It's about his trip there being reported. When I first heard about it, I went to the Snopes site, which specializes in debunking or confirming news items…and they're super-cautious about this. I checked in all day with their site and even after every major news source had said it was so, Snopes thought the sourcing was a little iffy and refused to say it was true.
Finally when Cruz issued a statement, that was proof enough and they said, "Yes, it's true." Everyone else was ahead of them but they set a higher bar for confirmation. I suppose some would say they were bad reporters of news because they didn't run it sooner…but I think it's refreshing and worthy of a salute or two. You can see some (not all) of the process they went through on this page.