Reporter:
1) It can be thankless, miserable, soul-crushingly depressing work. If you're doing your job well, powerful public figures will hate you and seek to make your life miserable. You'll see awful things you can't unsee like dead bodies and grieving families at their lowest points.
2) When the stars align and you get that one big investigative piece that has everyone talking, it's a "Fuck Yea" moment like no other. There is no better feeling than exposing wrongdoing. Like a boss.
3) Members of the mass media aren't all soulless assholes. Most of us got into it for the right reasons, and our only agenda is to produce meaningful, accurate, fair and kick-you-in-the-balls hard-hitting journalism.