Wishful Reporting
“With your contacts and my brains,” he said, “we can save journalism from the journalists. All you need to do is introduce me to a press baron who knows a visionary when he sees one.”
The duty of a reporter, I said, is to be always original but never too.
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He touched my sleeve–he’d spotted red lights blinking overhead. We held our breath. But it was only a plane descending toward O’Hare.
But the great pundits already know this, I said. It’s why top papers can provide a mix of columnists who reach opposite conclusions yet are all totally persuasive. Each is the absolute master of his own little world, in which inconvenient facts simply don’t exist and tangled human motives become as simple and obvious as bedtime stories.
Like a Cubs pennant?
Like Kerry defeats Bush?
