The Media and Other Depressing Topics; The Media and Other Depressing Topics
- Dick Farson
- A panel discussion
- Molly begins
- Quotes Jefferson.
- Primary in Texas
- Ugliest race in history
- "Poodle Slain by Archer"
- Greatest leads ever found but not printed
- Redwood City, California
- "The Whipped Cream of Jersey Society"
- Odessa is not a particularly interesting town.
- "Golf balls the size of hail rained on Odessa."
- Ex-lax fortune heir joke.
- Waldren Junior League joke.
- Jack Tinsley
- "Don't talk to me, I'm just a thermostat."
- "No such thing as objectivity."
- "Everything about journalism is a subjective procedure."
- The canons of objectivity have consistently weakened journalism.
- Objectivity causes journalistic laziness.
- Objectivity makes journalism dull.
- "That's plangent alright."
- Newspaper industry may fold.
- You don't learn very much by watching television.
- Words are needed for history, and structure, and causation.
- Leslie Stahl
- Pictures as stronger than words.
- Television as a dangerous media of information.
- Time as an element causing over simplification of TV news.
- Ratings with sex and violence
- Things never were as good as they used to be.
- The American tradition vs. the British tradition of popular papers
- Rupert Murdoch's press ethic, or lack of it.
- Grenada
- Restrictions on press in war.
- Tape cuts out.