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The same applies to governments and militaries that employ local interpreters and the like and them leave them hanging in the wind once they pull out. What's your point?
I agree that you can find journalists and news organisations that give the rest a bad name - show me one profession (and I use that term deliberately for the reasons already spelt out) where this isn't true, but as I've repeatedly said, it's lazy and unfair to tar the entire profession (that word again) with the same brush.
If it's humility you want you can start by getting off your high horse...