It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16 1856-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist; He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., The Importance of Being Ernest, 1895.