WSJ's TUNKU VARADARAJAN asks the question: why are American newspapers so boring? His answer is a complex of interesting observations about solipsism, fear of causing offense, and provincialism, the pretense of objectivity, among other things. I think he's on to something in singling out
the belief that a reporter's words, once printed in a serious paper, acquire a near sanctity. This view is further nourished by the sense among American journalists that they belong not to a bruising profession but to a priestly class.Posted by Dr. Frank at March 22, 2002 08:44 AM | TrackBack