Nowhere is it more demonstrable than in the field of journalism - nowhere more transparently personified than by media commentators and anchorpersons. In our time, importance has become a mannerism - not a fact. It may come as something of a shock to the media, but Sunday belongs to God, not to Tim Russert. The big bucks and the thrown panties come at the guys who announce those news items on the six o'clock news.
Journalism is a savanna of rich, unearned success.
One need not contemplate Margaret Carlson in excess of five seconds without the acute awareness, this is an entirely unimportant person. Indeed, one rarely sees triviality in such exorbitant progress. Like children, journalists do not consider, looking important and being important is not the same thing. In the journalism community, merely acting important enables them to bridge the gap between the two. He did not explain why lepers won't picnic there.