He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
— Thomas Griffith
Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
