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