Myths, connotations and history --- Thanks Kabir. It's interesting that the English admonition - "Don't shoot the messenger" is often attributed to William Shakespeare but it was also used in China about 250 years BCE and later by the Greek/Roman philosopher Plutarch, among many others. The concept of what the English called the "town crier" as for the delivery of all news, good or bad, and anyone who harmed the town crier for delivering bad news was considered in some places to have committed treason.

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