[megatherium]

You know the old comment by Mark Twain: Reporters can investigate and do research, or they can simply repeat what is told to them -- both approaches pay the same.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

There is another quote by Twain which goes something like; Journalists being self righteously aggressive for seeking out the lies of others who may have profited by them. But strangely reticent and silent as to investigating their own lies to sell newspapers,

[hosepipe]

[ You know the old comment by Mark Twain: Reporters can investigate and do research, or they can simply repeat what is told to them -- both approaches pay the same. ]

Withering attack on journalism... true then, true now..
Good and timely quote..