It’s Mueller report day! Can we please skip the instant hot takes?

Now that journalism has moved largely online and everything is metrics and analytics and eyeballs, it’s a different scene. This era’s hot takes are yesterday’s gardening section. They “finance” the serious stuff. Even the most scrupulous editor, on a normal day, might find a justification for saying, for example, that the fire at Notre Dame “feels like an act of liberation,” or crapping on George H.W. Bush’s service dog.

Today. Is. Not. That. Day.

With the caveat that maybe some publications—this is rank speculation—will get a sneak peek of the full report and might have responsible analysis ready to go quickly while the public is still digesting it, there’s no real justification for rushing to be first out of the gate on this one.

For starters, everyone will have the same source material. People can read it for themselves. (And should.) There is immense value in having skilled legal experts and learned journalists with analytical skills and significant stores of knowledge share their findings after a deep dive into the report.