The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

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The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of...

To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of...

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often...

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often...

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public...

Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public...

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two...

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love...

He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love...

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Journalism is in fact history on the run.

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in...

Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in...

Journalism is organized gossip.

Journalism is organized gossip.

[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often...

[Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often...

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it

Politics is just show business for ugly people

Politics is just show business for ugly people

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times,...

The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times,...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will...