Quotes by Thomas Griffith

• I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.
• The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
• Journalism is in fact history on the run.
• Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
• Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.
• He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
• Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
• Journalism as theater is what TV news is.