“Despite its relatively meager financial rewards, journalism remains an appealing profession for a certain type of person. Typically, this is because journalists have a lot of power. This is not that power to build people up, but the power to take people down. Journalism is most successful when it humiliates, and the power to humiliate is what draws people to the field.

Anyone who has spent time with journalists- and is not one himself- can see that they are often cruel people who take a fairly unconcealed pleasure in inflicting emotional pain. I see this type in the confinement center; only here they are called sociopaths. In journalism, envy and resentment become job assets because they fuel the journalist’s ambition and drive. So journalists, like community organizers, have their own set of talents. They too are part of the resentment industry.”

This is so perfectly stated.

[Journalists] are the kids in school who were the jerks, the tattletales and the busybodies. [They] think everything is [their] business, and if you choose not to disclose something that is none of their business, then you've got "something to hide," and you're part of a "cover up"!

To [them], the power to "get someone in trouble" is the most delicious thing on earth.