Quotes from Thomas Griffith

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.

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 as theater is what TV news is.

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

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

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