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Panama Papers Scandal

Squeezing the Free Press.

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

'The C minus was sufficient. I didn't need the advice against hiring a literary agent.'

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

"I try to write a little bit every day."

'We subpoenaed all of 'Mr. Big's' electronic messages. They're in morse code.'

Great works I plan to complete during the lockdown.

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'I prefer the term 'whistleblower' to tattletale.'

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

"This is a hell of a way to start a magazine."

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

'Best watchdog I ever had!'

"If you saw a book with the title 'An American Speaks Out,' would you buy it?"

Reporter #6: television.

"New studies show that the so-called 'lucky man' made popular by the prog-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer was, in fact, just very well-connected."

Journalism student ponders which course he wants to major in.

'I can't promise you a best seller but I can give you fifteen minutes of fame.'

"Screw this—I'm going to work for the tabloids."

Privacy

'I've had a few short stories published, but I'd really like to write 'the Great American How to Write a Novel.''

"A major crime publisher is interested in publishing your homework!"

'Be gentle with me, it's my first novel.'

"Why don't we call you 'Deeper Throat'?"

"Skepticism, Jones? Tell me, how does that relate to journalism?"

The Barrel of a Gun: the Press and the Truth

'Your novel has an up-to-the-moment breaking news quality. We intend to publish it in 2012.'

"Right here's the problem, apparently you have a novel in you"

'Actually, the entire novel is a metaphor of me getting rich from the movie rights.'

"This X-Ray proves conclusively that you don't have a book in you."