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We Must Express The View, Based On Our Empirical Observations, That A Substantial Number Of Journalists Are Ignorant, Lazy, Opinionated, And Intellectually Dishonest. The Profession Is Heavily Cluttered With Aged Hacks Toiling Through A Miasma Of Mounting Decrepitude And Often Alcoholism, And Even More So With Arrogant And Abrasive Youngsters Who Substitute 'commitment' For Insight. The Product Of Their Impassioned Intervention In Public Affairs Is More Often Confusion Than Lucidity.

I Always Keep A Firewall Between My Own Travails And My Perception Of Public-policy Issues; Otherwise I Would Retain No Credibility As A Commentator.

I Am A Passport-carrying Citizen Of The E.u.

We're Going To Try And Recruit The Very Best People We Can And Produce The Best Papers We Can, And Publish Them To The Highest Standards We Can .

I Have Long Thought That His [rupert Murdoch's] Social Philosophy Was Contained In His Cartoon Show, The Simpsons: All Politicians And Public Officials Are Crooks, And The Masses Are A Vast Lumpen Proletariat Of Deluded And Exploitable Blowhards.