I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.
PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government (ed. 1991)