The Flytrap

I guess I don't understand journalism. You hear that thing about a fly on the wall, that a journalist should be a fly on the wall, watching. But that was bullshit. Say you're in the room, you can't focus on anything when there's a fly on the wall. You watch it. If it doesn't move you wonder if it died there. Then turn it around, think of the fly. It's trying to home in, to lick stuff off your hands. Or more likely it's trying to get out, banging its head against the glass. It's desperate. I'm just saying it's a whole relationship.

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