The eternal battle between flaks & hacks, French style (lots of champagne involved)

A French student of mine has a friend in public relations and a friend in journalism in Paris. The ‘relationniste‘ and the ‘journaliste’ had an exchange about the failings of each other’s ‘profession’. Apart from references to champagne and a couple of idiosyncratic idioms, I suspect that their lists would strike a chord with anyone from those tribes anywhere in the world.