Grapes of Crap

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Journalism’s ‘Purity’
 

“What can I say about journalism? It has the greatest virtue and the greatest evil. It is the first thing a dictator controls. It is the mother of literature and the perpetrator of crap. In many cases it is the only history we have and yet it is the tool of the worst men. But over a long period of time and because it is the product of so many men, it is perhaps the purest thing we have. Honesty has a way of creeping into it even when it was not intended.” 

—John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Thanks to alert—and dogged—WORDster Christine Fairbanks)

• Editorial Comment: Those were the days, my friend.

PeezPIX by Ted Pease
 

Roots





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