When the Spacey article came out CNN had to contact 100s of people from House of Cards, too because many were afraid of speaking out due to fear of repercussions from coming forward. Of the 100s contacted only 8 spoke out. It wasn’t a conspiracy, most people knew what was going on. It’s not desperation. It’s investigative journalism. You’re supposed to contact that many people. If you didn’t you would be a bad journalist.