In America, It Is Sport

There Is A Growing Literature About The Multitude Of Journalism's Problems, But Most Of It Is Concerned With The Editorial Side Of The Business, Possibly Because Most People Competent To Write About Journalism Are Not Comfortable Writing About Finance.

A Person Whose Job Is Deep Thinking About Atomic War Would No More Call A 'megadeath' A 'million Corpses' Than An Embalmer Would Refer To A 'loved One' As A 'stiff.'

Anticipating That Most Poetry Will Be Worse Than Carrying Heavy Luggage Through O'hare Airport, The Public, To Its Loss, Reads Very Little Of It.

It Seems To Be A Law In American Life That Whatever Enriches Us Anywhere Except In The Wallet Inevitably Becomes Uneconomic.

Like All Young Reporters - Brilliant Or Hopelessly Incompetent - I Dreamed Of The Glamorous Life Of The Foreign Correspondent: Prowling Vienna In A Burberry Trench Coat, Speaking A Dozen Languages To Dangerous Women, Narrowly Escaping Sardinian Bandits - The Usual Stuff That Newspaper Dreams Are Made Of.