Zombie vs. Shark vs. Anthony Ha

"Journalists are thought to be competitive, and sometimes they are, but their main feeling about one another is fraternal. Journalists love one another the way members of a family -- in their case, a kind of crime family -- do. In 'Democracy in America,' Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of American journalists as persons of 'low social status, [whose] education is only sketchy, and [whose] thoughts are often vulgarly expressed.' ... Over the years, the social status and the education level of journalists have risen, and some journalists write extremely well. But the profession retains its transgressiveness. Human frailty continues to be the currency in which it trades. Malice remains its animating impulse."

- Janet Malcolm, "Iphigenia in Forest Hills," The New Yorker, May 3, 2010