The Devil's Dictionary: Reporter

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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REPORTER

-n.

A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

"More dear than all my bosom knows, O thou
Whose 'lips are sealed' and will not disavow!"
So sang the blithe reporter-man as grew
Beneath his hand the leg-long "interview."

- Barson Maith

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