Quote of the Day | 0315
I am not a scientist. I am a journalist. I did not gather with indifference all the facts and arrange them patiently for permanent preservation and laboratory analysis. I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts. My purpose was [to] see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride. That was the journalism of it. I wanted to move and to convince.
The part that gets me is, “I did not want to preserve, I wanted to destroy the facts.” (Meaning: end the corruption.) No journalist at the Washington Post would say that today. […]
Jay Rosen, quoting the muckraker Lincoln Steffens in:
The Twisted Psychology of Bloggers vs. Journalists
[x]#8432 fan dinsdag 15 maart 2011 @ 10:39:29
