This seems like a good place to shove everyone's favorite Janet Malcolm quote: >Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is goi

This seems like a good place to shove everyone's favorite Janet Malcolm quote: >Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. From her book The Journalist and The Murderer