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And It's A Necessity [for Journalists] To Pretend To Be Competent On Every Subject, Some Of Which They Really Do Not Understand. They Are Under That Necessity, I Regret; I'm Sorry For Them. But To Pretend To Understand All The Things You Write About, And Habitually To Write About Things You Do Not Understand, Is A Very Corrupting Thing.

-Friedrich August Von Hayek

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And It's A Necessity [for Journalists] To

Friedrich August Von Hayek

And It's A Necessity [for Journalists] To Pretend To Be Competent On Every Subject, Some Of Which They Really Do Not Understand. They Are Under That Necessity, I Regret; I'm Sorry For Them. But To Pretend To Understand All The Things You Write About, And Habitually To Write About Things You Do Not Understand, Is A Very Corrupting Thing.

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