You wont' hear Words on Books discussing what seems to be cold-blooded conspiracy between the conservative Republican Congress and conservative Republican Kenneth Starr to advance a reactionary social agenda. We're talking about books here. The print medium is helpless to convey instant visuals. That was done by four or five networks on a direct feed from Congress. I worry about the intermediaries.
Instant news makes for instant lack of judgement.
We expect instant lack of judgement from politicians. I had hoped book editors might do better than that. To disguise their unseemly haste, the various publishers hastily inserted prefaces and forewords to the transcripts, providing at least a semblance of added editorial content. TV on the other hand, just rolled along. Everybody knows everything in the end.