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Thomas Griffith
American
Editor
About the author
I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Sun
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Interest
#News
#Novelty
Journalism is in fact history on the run.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#History
#Fact
#Journalism
Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Reality
#Journalism
#Disorder
Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Now
#Public
#Attitude
#Press
#Skepticism
He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Love
#Kids
#Care
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
Journalism as theater is what TV news is.
Thomas Griffith,
American
Editor
#Theater
#News
#Journalism