The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information misinformation disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Americans like fat books and thin women.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling...
Usually terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires...
You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good like to...
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major...
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take...
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage...
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read...
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.
Ah summer what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Newspaper people once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun...
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most...
A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes...
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself'...
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of...
When sudden death takes a president opportunities for new beginnings...
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933....
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we...
When it comes to cars only two varieties of people are possible - cowards...
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in...
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems...
Except for politics no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than...
Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil...
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always...
Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the...
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good...
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be...
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents...
