‘The Enemy of the People’
“I really came here tonight to thank you. That's all. Just to thank you,
all of you.
“Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, the fourth estate,
our first line of defense against tyranny and the establishment of
state-sanctioned news.
“Thank you, you intrepid, underpaid, overextended,
trolled and un-extolled, young and old, battered and bold, bought and
sold, hyper-alert, crack caffeine fiends. You gorgeous, ambitious,
contrarian, fiery, dogged and determined bullshit detectives. You
persevering, cool, objective, indefatigable, chronically fatigued,
pharmaceutically soothed, chocolate-comforted twitter clickers! You, the
Enemy of the People. (Yeah, but just the Bad People!)
“May I, on behalf
of a grateful nation, thank you?”
—Meryl Streep, actress, the Committee to Protect Journalists' annual press freedom
dinner, Nov. 15, 2017. Full remarks and video here.
• Editorial Comment: Well, I must say, that’s pretty damn nice.
PeezPix by Ted Pease
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you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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