People's Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics by Fred Inglis

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

one sees only the struggle of the gradually awakening common people against the lords of property and their hired liars and bumsuckers.

In short, much like the communists, the journalists’ moral conviction gives them the license to doxx private citizens, to go through people’s garbage, to use secret identities (and then claim they don’t), to print hacked data, to solicit leaks of private information while demanding to keep their own information private, to induce people to break co