Only those who have been here will understand

The New York Times gets a lot of well-deserved criticism, but this is what journalism should be:

I could not dig; I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?

Kipling, “A Dead Statesman,” from Epitaphs of the Great War