Godwin's Law ought to be enshrined next to Newton's Laws or Kepler's Laws for all posterity. For the uninitiated, Godwin's Law states, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." The concept was devised by Mike Godwin in 1990 and officially codified into law in a Wired article in 1994. Since then, the evidence for this law has only gotten stronger.
Because of the unquestioned veracity of Godwin's Law, it is perhaps inevitable that a journalist will, eventually, be compared to a Nazi. We could even formulate a corollary called Godwin's Law of Journalism: "As a journalist's career grows longer, the probability he or she will be compared to Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
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