I would love to believe that is the reason that those journos are reacting that way, but I suspect it’s the payroll and taste for the story

*A journo speaks* Agree, but leave out the payroll bit, they get paid the same anyway. But, as Bager says, many US papers had been calling for intervention for months, so this is probably that ‘YES! Let’s go get ’em!’ moment for them. Remember the mass opinion reported in 1914 was all for going to war.