The scope of your ignorance, Peter," said Seawoll, "is truly frightening. - Ben Aaronovitch

The more power something has, the less the actual facts matter.

“I’ve been told to take the day off,” said Leslie. “Compassionate—don’t get on media’s radar—leave.”
That I could understand. A family annihilation involving charismatic rich people was going to be a news editor’s dream story. Once they’d picked over the gruesome details, they could extend the mileage by asking what the tragic death of the Coopertown family told us about our society and how this tragedy was an indictment of modern culture/secular humanism/political correctness/the situation in Palestine—delete where applicable. About the only thing that could improve the story would be the involvement of a good-looking blonde WPC out, I might add, unsupervised on a dangerous assignment.

I didn’t dare ask because we have an unspoken agreement—I don’t question what she does on my computer when I’m out and, in return, she doesn’t murder me in my sleep.