The Strategy Page is calling (probably with tongue in cheek) for the creation of the Astonishing News Network ... inter alia there's this:

Like doctors swearing to the Hippocratic Oath, ANN producers and reporters would take the Oath of Thucydides, named after the great Greek historian. OK -- there is no Oath of Thucydides per se, but Thucydides said he wasn't writing for an immediate audience. Hence ANN's Thucydidean commitment: "context, context, context -- then more context."

... and, of course, they can put speeches in the mouths of anyone as they see fit ...