After his father gives him a job at their small-town newspaper, a conceited journalist buried in debt investigates a sports drug scandal that implicates his athlete brother.

>>I prefer moral dilemmas

Ditto.

I think that is a question for logline's author.

Personally, I prefer moral dilemmas, and I would twist this story that way: Poor journalist gets the time of his life investigating a huge drug scandal but when he discovers his loved brother is implicated in, he needs to find a way to please his demanding boss and conceal his brother crimes. Or something like this. No father in this version. However, that would be a different story.

What do you see as the fundamental subjective or thematical issue that arises in uncovering the scandal? The challenge to his conceit to pursue the story, no matter where it leads? The moral dilemma he finds himself caught in?

Or?