“To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.”
![“And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not…” quote by Friedrich August von Hayek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0dd/friedrich-august-von-hayek-141_competent_and-it-s-a-necessity-for-journalists-to_1311147.jpg)
