Gotta differentiate 'real journalists' like Paul - the spook - Mason...

Like...the bar is high. I mean...Mason, Luke Harding...Nick Cohen...The Groucho club for journos was pointedly named after that Groucho Marx line “I wouldn't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
-Once apparent celebrants of disrepute they now close ranks to protect their self-perceived "respectability": You're not a "real" journalist unless you are being paid to say what you say by corporations and media moguls.