Media people look as though they know something, but the underlying truth of America is lost on them. Their error is not in its fact but in its theme. Being presentable and glib on the tube is no substitute for having access to reality or an appreciation that simple goodness is not the stigmata of suckers. Never mind Meet the Press. There is more pure and elevating substance inside the crankcase of your car.
Reporters are writers who the world feeds.
They never have to come up with an original idea. If a journalist wants to experience stress, either he has to import it, transfuse it, or buy it at auction. One shakes one's head in wonder how absurdly, contemptibly, even vulgarly easy it is to be Al Hunt. Still, we must assume reporters have a function and, if we strain, we can see deus ex machina even in Sam Donaldson. Only Christiane Amanpour validates her reputation as the best reporter in the country, possibly by never being in the country.