All Journalists Are Bastards (In precisely the same sense as All Cops Are Bastards, namely that they have a job which purports to be in the public interest, bu

All Journalists Are Bastards (In precisely the same sense as All Cops Are Bastards, namely that they have a job which purports to be in the public interest, but which is highly distorted by a bunch of societal factors and mostly winds up serving powerful interests. Any given interaction with a journalist/cop has a chance of going badly, and if it does go badly you can be damn sure that you're going to the one that suffers, while the cop/journalist gets away with it.)