We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity everything gets only fifteen minutes.
We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that individuals all seem to get their fifteen minutes of celebrity everything gets only fifteen minutes.
What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movie like little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real thing.
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
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