“Americans became desensitized to scandalous revelation, whether it involved sex or drug use or cheating on a college exam. You could disappoint us, certainly, but we were now a very hard country to shock.” PoliticsShockScandalsPolitical Scandal Book:All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
“It wasn’t really up to the writer to decide what questions were relevant. The conversation “out there” had already done that, and all the poor writer could do was to shake his head sadly and try to bring some clarity to it. Surely politics would be better if we could all just refocus the debate on the things that really mattered, but it never seemed to be the journalist’s job to do the refocusing. The given issues were the given issues, in the same way that rivers just flow the way they flow, and all the helpless reporter could do was selflessly hurl himself into the murky current and try to help his readers navigate their way through.” JournalismReporting Book:All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
“With rare exceptions, our cautious candidates were like smiling holograms programmed to speak and smile but not to interact, so that it sometimes seemed you could run your hand right through them.” PoliticsCandidates Book:All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid