If it was just greed, need (“it is well known that journalists are overworked and underpaid” offered one reporter helpfully) or simply kleptomaniacal propensities, which are some of the explanations that have been swirling around to try to make sense of such brazen behavior, it still doesn’t answer why they, who as knowledge-keepers are, or perhaps should be, more aware of the implications of such actions are so convinced that they would get away with it. They clearly feel a sense of power and entitlement, which they think will protect them from punishment in case they do get caught. They forget that even if that were true in their own land, where their closeness with politicians and police may form a protective shield around them, enough for them to feel that they could break the law if they so willed, the same rules don’t apply everywhere. Or perhaps they are emboldened by the knowledge that journalists the world over have gotten away with erratic behavior, not the least of which took place in the United Kingdom itself. By the time a criminal investigation against Jimmy Savile was launched in 2012 for countless cases of sexual assault on women and children, for instance, the once-respected, larger-than-life media personality had been dead for almost a year, having lived a happy life spanning 85 years.