It's doing a favor for the rich. They don't write about people like many in his book who live in shelters or in buildings where tenants have to lug buckets of water seven flights up or share a single restroom with dwellers on the same floor. Where are those voices, he asked, asking out loud how stories become stories. Why are hemlines headlines, why is a new restaurant news, he wanted to know. I think what's going on here is a kind of cultural deletion, a kind of sanitizing of reality.
Births go unnoticed.
Marriages aren't reported in the social pages. That's the question that has not been answered. Not by our government. Not by our politicians. And not by our daily press.