A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.
Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
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A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.