Lowering Expectations

 

“News organizations have to stop using the phrase: ’We go beyond the headlines.’ That’s your job, dummy. You don’t see American Airlines saying, ‘We land our jets on the runway!”

 

—Bill Maher, commentator, comedian and TV host, and author of “New Rules: Polite Musings From a Timid Observer,” 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: “We flew American and lived!”

 

PeezPIX 

Dancing Alders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edward C. Pease, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Head Emeritus
Department of Journalism & Communication
Utah State University
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