I exaggerate, of course. Microsoft's pictographic and thus universal language, using icons and mice rather than letters and key stroking. So relax, old timers, a very new media is here, and we old tribesmen might as well stop grousing about it. This little gem of a book covers, with great gusto, the catalogue of current concerns in the news community. What the people know and when they know it are the engines of democracy.
Leaks change the timing.
He takes his measure, too, of celebrity journalism and news as entertainment. He notes that Tom Friedman of The New York Times today is considered in Washington as more influential in the formation of foreign policy than the old bulls of the foreign policy establishment. Not exactly a revelation to anyone. As for the value of news in television front offices, Reeves wonders when the new network owners will have the confidence to rename their news shows the Westinghouse Evening News, the G.E. Nightly News, or the Disney World News. That is where we, our rowdy tribe has to fight or dieor both.