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mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
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Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
‘the morals of the
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
public and advertising.”
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
this troubled world can be achieved by acquiring and wielding a special kind of know-how, a knowledge that alone can save.3
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
that element of the outrageous which is the mother of all adventures sprang up ungovernable,