It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins. What objectivity has brought about, in short, is a disregard for the consequences of newsmaking. In closing . . . What started out as some private exchanges with reporters, has now escalated to some private exchanges with their editors. But alas, when all is said and done, their coverage has not changed.
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.