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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), i am absolved of responsibility. we journalists don't have to step on roaches. all we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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I Am A Journalist And, Under The

P. J. O'Rourke
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), i am absolved of responsibility. we journalists don't have to step on roaches. all we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
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