![]() "I know of no subject, save perhaps baseball, on which the average American newspaper, even in the larger cities, discourses with unfailing sense and understanding." By H.L. "Not defensively, but that the record may be straight, let me say that I did very little faking, although there was no special prejudice against it, so long as the fake wasn't libelous." A reporter looks back at his days as a yellow journalist. "Too much of our news is one-dimensional, when truth has three dimensions (or maybe more) and in some fields the vast and increasing complexity of the news makes it continually more difficult-especially for us Washington reporters-to tell the public what really happened." By Elmer Davis In the wake of recent scandals some distinctions are in order. ![]() Hollywood is not a reliable moral arbiter of anything, so it's not surprising that when it holds a mirror up to journalism, Shattered Glass is the result. ![]() "When the Front Page Meets the Big Screen" (March 2004) More on politics and society from The Atlantic Monthly. ![]()
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