She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own. The best way to fill time is to waste it. Journalism without a moral position is impossible.
Every journalist is a moralist.
It's absolutely unavoidable. I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual.