HERE’S AN AMUSING REPORT on journalists talking about journalism. The names have been changed to protect the guilty:

A message they endeavored to convey was how hard they work, which they did with the insistent tone of someone who, being acquainted with no other type of employment, has deluded himself into thinking that his work is somehow more taxing than that of other professions. Interestingly, the allusions to difficult work were always adjacent to an anecdote that suggested the opposite. Smug Susan, for example, explained that she came upon a story of which she is proud when an environmentalist called and gave her the information: “So I made a couple of phone calls, and found out it was true. You really have to dig.”

Hey, I do that kind of digging.