Media must "fight their own DNA" to properly cover the redacted Mueller report.

Making matters worse, the report is said to be nearly 400 pages long, and is likely to contain heavy redactions of sensitive material.

That’s why it will be important for journalists, in the initial reporting, to be open with their audiences or readers about what they don’t know — to say, in essence, “we just got this and we are reading it in real time and trying to figure it out.”

Transparency (we’re just making sense of this) and humility (we really don’t know what the bottom line is yet) will be crucial elements.

No matter what, the early coverage won’t be great journalism. It will be more like mad scrambling and reading-while-reporting.