The Washington Post, December 8th, 1991
Walter Lippmann, patron saint of the cerebral school of American journalism, observed many years ago that newspaper work is "the last refuge of the vaguely talented." There are no standards for admission to this refuge, no licensing procedures, no common ethical mandates or behavioral norms and no common grounds (such as malpractice) for being cast out into the darkness. In such an atmosphere, one would expect misfits and eccentrics, con artists, drunks, dopers and other exotic species to prosper along with the righteous, as indeed was often the case in Mr. Lippmann's salad years (and in mine)...
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