Intellectual passion occurs at the intersection of fact and implication.
It's no longer about lights in the sky; it's about lies on the ground.
If you choose to speak truth to power, it is not enough to select
those truths which are convenient or safe or self-serving. You must speak
the whole truth and nothing but the truth and place your fate in the hands of history.
For the best part of 50 years, when the biggest story of all time and the seminal event in human history phoned in, the fourth estate was screening its calls.