Blind Optimism

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Nincompoops

“I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever. . . . 

“Not that journalism is always wonderful, it’s not, but at least we offer some way out, some integrity.”

—Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, in “Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media,” The Guardian, Sept. 27, 2013

 

 

• Editorial Comment: Now I feel better.

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