【明報專訊】Things are not so bad in journalism, but even in the newsroom one does best to be polite when fingers meet keyboard. The editor particularly hates to hear the word "defamatory" and winces (皺眉蹙額) just as you would at the third complaining phone call of the day. I confess to having been the cause of it on occasion — I have always considered a bout of Singapore-bashing to be a fine manly sport for a Hong Kong newspaper and I have not always been able to restrain this weakness.