[Colonel Flagg]

Originally Posted by Guitar Woman

Dude, you can't fabricate shit in journalism, that's like the number one rule

Originally Posted by Douglas Adams (RIP)

"[The witness was telling the WHOLE TRUTH;] Terrible things, incomprehensible things", he shouted, "things that would drive a man mad!"
He stared wildly at them.
"Or in my case," he said, "half-mad. I'm a journalist."
"You mean," said Arthur quietly, "that you are used to confronting the truth?"
"No", said the man with a puzzled frown, "I mean that I made an excuse and left early."

That is the number one rule of journalism.