…to “report” a single-interview hit piece? Here’s the sample:

[Massachusetts Democrat Barney] Frank took a dig at Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who interrupted his campaign to return to Washington on Thursday to help work on a Wall Street bailout. “All of sudden, now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain here drops himself in to help us make a deal, Frank said. He expressed fear that McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona who has spent much of the year away from the Capitol campaigning, could end up slowing down work on the bill. The Massachusetts Democrat noted that a meeting on Capitol Hill on Thursday will be interrupted for a “photo op” at the White House with congressional Democrats and Republicans as well as Bush. “We’re trying to rescue the economy, not the McCain campaign,” Frank said.

The correct answer? Three:

(Reporting by Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

One to ask the penetrating questions, one to transcribe Frank’s incandescent answers and capture his “fear”, and one to add the gratuitous slap (“…a U.S. senator from Arizona who has spent much of the year away from the Capitol campaigning,” for those who may have missed that colostomy-like appositive) at McCain.