Handmaiden to the Establishment: Peter Greste’s Register of Journalists

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When established, well fed and fattened, a credible professional tires from the pursuit.  One can get complacent, flatulently confident, self-assured.  From that summit, the inner lecturer emerges, along with a disease: false expertise.

The Australian journalist Peter Greste has faithfully replicated the pattern.  At one point in his life, he was lean, hungry and determined to get the story.  He seemed to avoid the perils of mahogany ridge...