“It’s a
time of both crisis and triumph for responsible news media. Of vilification and
vindication. They’re attacked almost daily as purveyors of
‘fake
news’ to undermine their credibility. Yet they’ve delivered on their
promise to
keep the American public informed. Without them, we wouldn’t know what’s
going on in Myanmar or Yemen or Charlottesville or Washington. Without
them, there’d be no Mueller investigation.”
—John
Darnton, journalist and curator of the Polk Awards, announcing a Special Polk Award to the New York Times and the Washington Post for their coverage of
Russian connections with the Trump campaign, Feb. 20, 2018.
• Editorial Comment: NYT and WaPo — also tops on CheetoHead’s enemies list.
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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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