I remember this little ditty from the November-December 1989 issue of content magazine:

Media mini-baron Conrad Black talks about journalists in a recent interview in the Financial Times of London:

Mr. Black accepts that journalists cannot be treated as just another unit of production and that even terribly unproductive journalists can be extremely valuable to readers.

"Some of them are temperamental, tiresome and nauseatingly eccentric and simply obnoxious but that really has nothing to do with it. They simply cannot be measured by that criterion," says Conrad Black.