"If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust."

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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too 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.

— Janet Malcolm