Don’t imagine that for years on end you can make yourself the boot-licking propagandist of the Soviet regime, or any other regime, and then suddenly return to mental decency. Once a whore, always a whore.
Orwell, as quoted by Keith Gessen
in this post. Where was I when this came out? I’m not in the “media elite” so perhaps that is why I am at a loss. I have no idea what drama he is referring to nor do I know who he is, but his argument is damn well constructed.