Date: December 18th, 2025 10:39 AM Author: Embarrassed to the bone personal credit line
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
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i'm surprised that Wiles didn't know that already. vanity >>> self-preservation, i guess.
Date: December 18th, 2025 2:47 PM Author: Embarrassed to the bone personal credit line
she should have been aware that VF would torch her and just out of self-preservation she should not have spoken to them. but she fell for the con game.