The inevitable Johann Hari post

"It's a bit odd, being outside the world of journalism looking in," I thought as I looked at myself in the bathroom mirror this morning. "What people like me, and possibly you, don't usually understand," I said aloud, propping myself against the sink and raising a conspiratorial eyebrow, "is that there are certain practices we would think are absurd or evidence of unprofessionalism that are just standard practice in journalism." I hung my head in contemplation, slowly raising my toothbrush back to my mouth, deep in thought.