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It has usually been either cheap sensationalism, or corrupt, bought off, partisanship.
Here is the journalist wearing, for the moment, the market capitalist cheap sensationalist's retort:
It has usually been either cheap sensationalism, or corrupt, bought off, partisanship.
Here is the journalist wearing, for the moment, the market capitalist cheap sensationalist's retort:
(Lorch) Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
With their other hat on, the one the NYT aways wears, they are the only repository of truth, a bulwark against fraud, falsehood, and cheap sensationalism, in a fallen world.
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
With their other hat on, the one the NYT aways wears, they are the only repository of truth, a bulwark against fraud, falsehood, and cheap sensationalism, in a fallen world.
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