US Presidency
1968

Certainly, it is more dramatic to show policemen and rioters locked in combat than to show men trying to cooperate with one another. The face of hatred and of bigotry comes through much more clearly no matter what its color. The face of tolerance, I seem to find, is rarely newsworthy. Progress -whether it is a man being trained for a job or millions being trained or whether it is a child in Head Start learning to read or an older person of 72 in adult education or being cared for in Medicare rarely makes the news, although more than 20 million of them are affected by it. Perhaps this is because tolerance and progress are not dynamic events -such as riots and conflicts are events. Peace, in the news sense, is a condition. War is an event.