The basic premise of a scoop is that you're bringing important facts to public attention. Your philosophical touchstone is Justice Louis Brandeis' bromide that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

The cages came up crammed and crammed again with the men nearest the pit-eye, as they call the place where you can see daylight from the bottom of the main shaft.

They got out, took off their shoes, got a bucket and a clam gun each and headed toward the line of white surf on the beach.

The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.