When we were trolling the internets for a newsworthy piece, we stumbled across this article in the Independent: "Network refuses to name clients of 'DC madam'."

Could it be? we thought. Could it really be that mainstream media has finally taken a small—but pivotal—step towards dignified restraint, by granting public figures a private life and reasserting a professional distance?

Then we kept on reading.

There was an almost audible sigh of relief in parts of America's capital this weekend after a TV network said it would not reveal the identities of scores of clients of the alleged "DC madam" because they were not well enough known to be "newsworthy".

In other words, "Network refuses to name clients of 'DC madam' because clients are not quite famous enough to adequately exploit."

Yeah, that sounds a bit more like it.

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