Journalists are reaching their nadir, even at FT. At best, they are misguided newly minted English majors who haven’t yet learned statistics and are easily fooled by randomness. But it shouldn’t take more than a year on the job to realize that most journalistic efforts are attempts to create a story out of pure noise, and at that point you either quit your job and start doing actual journalism, or you call yourself what you are: a professional troll.